On Sat, 10 May 2008 08:26:52 -0700 (PDT), TheOneKEA
wrote:

Now that Eurostar has been running the full length of HS1 and has been
serving St. Pancras for a little over five months, who was right?

Did all of the people living in areas reachable from, via or in SW
London who used to go via Waterloo give up and go to Gatwick? Did
swarms of people that once stuffed themselves into the Underground and
Thameslink to get to Waterloo from Euston, KxSTP and Liverpool St now
just walk up to the St. Pancras turnstiles?

I'm curious to know if any hard data exists on how precisely the
ridership on Eurostar has altered as a result of the switch to St.
Pancras.

I have seen no hard data at all. From my own experience of using the
Victoria Line I have certainly noticed a pronounced increase in people
with luggage heading to Kings Cross - largely from those stations south
of KX. Make what you will of that completely unscientific observation!

Kings Cross tube station also appears to impersonate "hell on earth" on
a fairly regular basis - despite all the improvement works. I just hope
the remaining work does something to take some of the pressure off.

--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!