On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 08:59:22PM +0100, Paul Corfield wrote:

When it *is* crowded, they're changing the average gap from fifteen
minutes to twelve minutes, which is pretty insignificant and I doubt
will even be particularly noticeable to those trying to cram themselves
into the trains.
You do seem entirely ungrateful for any improvement.

The problem is that I don't think that having trains every twelve
minutes on average instead of every 15 minutes on average (in the
evening peak) will be noticeable, and so it can't really be considered
an improvement.

Sure. But now there's an obvious need for it. Arguably a greater need
than for things like a new ticket hall at Victoria, or whatever the hell
it is that's being built in Green Park, or replacing the shiny new
signalling system on the shiny new bit of the Jubilee line, or ...
In your opinion. I'm sorry but I refuse to believe that the WLL is so
busy that it carries more passengers than use Green Park station or than
use the Jubilee Line.

Of course more people use Green Park and the Jubilee line. However,
Green Park and the Jubilee line have the capacity to cope with their
current passengers IME, and so upgrades there are less pressing.

If you can't get onto a Jubilee line train because it's rammed, it
doesn't really matter because there will be another along in a coupla
minutes. If you can't get onto a WLL train, you'll have to wait a lot
longer, and get rained on while waiting.

Victoria Station is a hell hole in the peak so
the expansion in capacity is certainly required.

The last time I used it regularly in the peaks was about two years ago.
Sure it was busy, but it was tolerable. Having trains every coupla
minutes and viable alternative routes helped, of course. There are no
viable alternatives for the WLL.

Well I shall have to commit myself to enduring the torture that is the
WLL in the peak in order to make a comparison.

I don't recommend it.

God knows what your
complaints would be like if National Express had won a further franchise
and inflicted Silverlink Metro standards of performance on you for
another 7-8 years.

Oh that's easy - I would have taken a job in Richmond instead of White
City, and so would be complaining about SWT's crappy service between
there and Clapham Junction instead :-)

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