On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:52:21 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

Christian Hansen wrote:
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:10:58 -0000, "Tim Roll-Pickering"
wrote:

Tristán White wrote:

What do you think of the petition by Brick Lane residents and
shop and restaurant owners to get Aldgate East renamed "Brick
Lane" to boost the area. Having lost Shoreditch station, they're
getting a bit of a rum deal at the moment.

I've always been rather sceptical of the idea that Shoreditch
is/was the best station for Brick Lane. Personally I've always
found Aldgate East to be the most useful. I guess if you were
travelling from south of Whitechapel and Shoreditch was open
then it might be useful, but Aldgate East comes out at a better
place for walking Brick Lane properly.

Depends on where you're going on Brick Lane. I often go to the
"Beigel" bakeries at the other end of Brick Lane, and it's a 10
minute walk from Aldgate East to the bakeries.

So the new Shoreditch High Street station when it opens would be equally
if not more convenient than Aldgate East for the north end of Brick
Lane.

I don't see how the closure of a station that was generally open only in
peak hours would have a major impact on the restaurants. Perhaps they
should concentrate on the quality of the food rather than aggressively
harrassing pedestrians on Brick Lane or organising ill-founded
petitions.

Most of the restaurants are in the middle of Brick Lane, before the brewery.
After that there are a few coffee shops, the two "beigel" shops, and a couple
of boutiques. Shoreditch High Street will probably be OK for the restaurants,
but I'm not averse to a renaming of Aldgate East either.

The closing of Shoreditch has really screwed up my rye bread consumption.
That's what I go to the "beigel" shops to buy, and it used to be fairly easy
when Shoreditch was around; I just took the train shortly after they opened
Shoreditch and then took the #35 bus home. Now I have to plan my visits and
usually (stupidly) take the #8 bus from Victoria because it normally turns up
in front of my place of work as I'm leaving. That takes about an hour, whereas
if I could resist its blandishments and take the Circle Line from Victoria to
Liverpool Street I could either walk or take the #8 from there.

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