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[email protected] · August 12th 09, 11:09 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Bruce) wrote:

That can only be a good thing, because rail could never cope with more
than a tiny proportion of the passenger traffic that currently goes by
road. Rail has 6% of the surface passenger-km, roads 94%. So even if
rail doubled its market share to 12%, the roads would still take
88%. The chances of rail doubling its market share without massive
development of new lines are near-zero. Just look at the high cost of
Crossrail, and of high speed inter-city lines.

You really do demonstrate how clueless you are. Those percentages in
London are quite different. London travel-to-work by public transport
figures vary by borough around 50%, for example.

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Colin Rosenstiel