On 29 Mar 2007 06:51:12 -0700, "Kev" wrote:

On Mar 29, 2:38 pm, "Jack Taylor" wrote:
Kev wrote:
Why doesn't Tony's mate Ken fund it, now TfL controls the dc lines out
to watford Junc as well. Mind you Ken is up to his eyeballs funding
the East London Line, North London Line and the Olympics.
Maybe they have sussed that there isn't really the local will for this
link.

TfL doesn't control the DC lines, it will only be responsible for
service specification and re-franchising of the Silverlink Metro
service from sometime this year while the infrastructure remains with
Network Rail.

Depends where 'local' is. For those of us out to the west or north-west of
Watford (and probably the south-west as well) a direct link to Watford
Junction and West Coast Main Line services would be warmly welcomed. The
long trek from Watford Met, across Cassiobury Park and down Rickmansworth
Road, is exceedingly tiresome!

Ask the general populace of SW Herts about what they thought of the
Croxley rail link and I doubt that 95% would know what you were
talking about. Probabley need to make that 98%.
Bearing in mind that the bulk of WCML users will be business users
they will be using taxi or private car to Watford Junc anyway so I
don't think that they will be too bothered.