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Barry Salter · October 25th 06, 08:54 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
TheOneKEA wrote:

This is what I don't understand - you (and others) keep going on about
how everyone on this part of the NLL wants to go to and from Hackney.
Why?!?

Well, I tend to travel during the day (for some reason) and usually
travel Highbury and Islington - North Woolwich. Most of the North
Woolwich passengers have boarded before Stratford.

But it also links North London, much further West than Hackney, to
London City Airport. That is useful. There is already a DLR link there,
which "links" to central London (with lots of shaking around), but the
silverlink supplied a north london link.

The walk from Silvertown to London City Airport isn't exactly the nicest
thing to do, and the line is prone to flooding as well.

And having just checked the TfL Journey Planner, from where I live in
Edmonton it's recommending various routes to Bank, then the DLR, with a
journey time of around 1.5 hours.

The only times it seems to suggest using Silverlink are if you put a
Silverlink Station in as the origin...And even then it says to change to
the DLR at Canning Town.

Cheers,

Barry