On Aug 27, 10:49 pm, James Farrar wrote:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:04:03 -0700, MIG
wrote:





On Aug 27, 4:08 am, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote:
(Colin Rosenstiel)typed

In article .com,
(sweek) wrote:
More trains and less delays will ease congestion, making this worth
the effort, I think. And there is quite a good chance you will get a
seat when changing at Camden Town, since a lot of other people will
be getting off and changing for the other line, too.
If you arrive at Camden Town on a crush loaded train do you really think
you will be able to change to a train that is not crush loaded? So if you
had a seat before you won't in future in the peak hour.

Station dwell times are bound to increase when about half the passengers
on board are changing trains.

No they won't, because drivers will face discipline if they don't
stick to "target dwell times". So they will shut the doors before
anyone can get on (as they already do at Bank and elsewhere), leaving
anyone who politely lets people off first standing on the platform
indefinitely.

A nice rant, spoiled only by its lack of grounding in the facts.

Let me translate into English: you once couldn't get on a train at
Bank because, in your opinion, the driver shut the doors too early.-


No. Many many times. I have also had a written respons from LU
confirming that it is their policy. Is that English enough for you?