On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:11:55 -0700, W14_Fishbourne
wrote:

On Aug 2, 6:58 pm, Neal wrote:


This is certainly my favourite option! I think they should be given
control of the entire London suburban rail network and run it as part
of the Overground as franchises expire..

It may have escaped your notice but Maidenhead and Shenfield are not
part of London, so why should Ken or Boris run the trains that serve
them? Fine by me if London ratepayers pick up the tab, but I somehow
suspect that that's not the intention.

To put it another way, if Ken or Boris should run those trains, why
shouldn't they run all the trains that serve London? I somehow think
that the people of Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, etc, might have
something to say about their trains to London being run by the MoL.
Even if you exclude those trains, the London commuter-belt goes out a
long way these days: Bournemouth, Bristol, Northampton, Grantham,
Cambridge, Norwich, Southend.

In New York, the Connecticut commuter trains are run jointly by the
Connecticut Dept. of Transportation and the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority. They pay for the line in accordance with the proportion of trackage
in each state.

No reason why TfL shouldn't run Crossrail with Essex along the same lines.
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