Colin McKenzie wrote:
Robin Cox wrote:

These are being floated as options 5 and 6 by the London Borough
of Hounslow, whose previous options 3 and 4 were presumably rejected.

They relate to the tunnelled route SW of Paddington.
Summary:
Proposed new tunnel alignment.
Proposed new Crossrail station at the Vale, Acton.
Proposed new station at Chiswick Business Park, with District, Picc,
NLL and Crossrail services in three directions (Paddington/East
London, Richmond/Kingston, Brentford/Hounslow)
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The depressing thing about all of this is the blinkered attitude to
routes, which only attempts to serve traffic to/from central London.
If the base option is built, passengers from Richmond to Heathrow,
for example, would have to change at Paddington. At least now they
only have to go as far as Hammersmith!

This is typical of the ignorant and illogical comments coming out of
Richmond at present. If the base option is built, passengers from Richmond
would get to Paddington faster than they currently get to Hammersmith, and
their journey from Paddington to Heathrow would also be quicker than the
Piccadilly line. So what's the problem? With a bit of luck, the
Piccadilly will stop at Turnham Green and you could change to the Piccadily
there if you really wanted the slow route to Heathrow.
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Richard J.
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