Looks like today won't happen... is Monday looking good?

On Apr 22, 11:18*am, Basil Jet wrote:
Looks like today won't happen... is Monday looking good?

Yes - sunny, 20 degrees C, light wind.

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
Mizter T wrote:
On Apr 22, 11:18=A0am, Basil Jet wrote:
Looks like today won't happen... is Monday looking good?

Yes - sunny, 20 degrees C, light wind.

That'll be the hot air from the spokesman explaining away the next delay
in opening.

B2003

On 22/04/2010 12:08, d wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
Mizter wrote:
On Apr 22, 11:18=A0am, Basil wrote:
Looks like today won't happen... is Monday looking good?

Yes - sunny, 20 degrees C, light wind.

That'll be the hot air from the spokesman explaining away the next delay
in opening.

By "delay" you mean "not opening it early"?

On Apr 22, 12:08*pm, wrote:

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
Mizter T wrote:
On Apr 22, 11:18am, Basil Jet wrote:
Looks like today won't happen... is Monday looking good?

Yes - sunny, 20 degrees C, light wind.

That'll be the hot air from the spokesman explaining away the next delay
in opening.

There's no delay - the opening date is Sunday 23 May. There haven't
been any spokespeople explaining away any delay in opening because
there hasn't been any delay in opening.

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:17:06 -0700 (PDT)
Mizter T wrote:
On Apr 22, 12:08=A0pm, wrote:

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
Mizter T wrote:
On Apr 22, 11:18am, Basil Jet wrote:
Looks like today won't happen... is Monday looking good?

Yes - sunny, 20 degrees C, light wind.

That'll be the hot air from the spokesman explaining away the next delay
in opening.

There's no delay - the opening date is Sunday 23 May. There haven't
been any spokespeople explaining away any delay in opening because
there hasn't been any delay in opening.

Whatever. It was just a light hearted remark.

All that money spent on new track , trains and doing up the stations so
the south end has a through service to stations that were already well
served and the north end goes to places no one will ever want to visit.
Except it doesn't go to finsbury park , the one destination that might have
been useful.

B2003

In article , d
wrote:

the north end goes to places no one will ever want to visit.

I think you'll be surprised at how popular Dalston is becoming -
theatre, jazz club, famous market etc - and Highbury at the upper end of
Upper Street and by more clubs, the Arsenal etc is hardly not already
popular.

E.

On 22/04/2010 11:18, Basil Jet wrote:
Looks like today won't happen...

The first 19 hours seem to have happened on schedule.

is Monday looking good?

Do they ever?

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

On 22/04/2010 11:18, Basil Jet wrote:
Looks like today won't happen... is Monday looking good?

I wonder if there have ever been any transport projects, say for rail,
where the whole structure has been built, stations, signals, etc.
Perhaps they even had rolling stock tested and ready to go.

It would have simply been a matter if signing the papers and opening the
gate.

But then, for whatever economic or political reason, the entire project
wound up being dismantled without a fare paying passenger ever having
set foot on it.

On 22/04/2010 23:12, wrote:
On 22/04/2010 11:18, Basil Jet wrote:
Looks like today won't happen... is Monday looking good?

I wonder if there have ever been any transport projects, say for rail,
where the whole structure has been built, stations, signals, etc.
Perhaps they even had rolling stock tested and ready to go.

It would have simply been a matter if signing the papers and opening the
gate.

But then, for whatever economic or political reason, the entire project
wound up being dismantled without a fare paying passenger ever having
set foot on it.

The electrification of the line from Finsbury Park to Edgware comes
close to that description. I have a vague recollection that a curve in
the vicinity of Kent House was built but never used by a single train.