In article ,
Paul Corfield wrote:


I have used it a few times at different times of the day and while it
has never been packed out it is pleasing to see people using the new
link. It has certainly got me to parts of South London I have not been
to for years. I suspect it is equally true that South Londoners have
been exploring bits of North London they've not been to for ages.

I don't know about explorers but the trains to/from Highbury are well
used now - I use Dalston Junction a fair amount and recently quite a few
carriages at the front or back (depending on which way) have no free
seats at peak times.

The other day I managed to get to Warren Street from my house in Dalston
in about 25 mins - if it wasn't for the awful Vic/Picc interchange now
at Kings X the Picc line would also be in much easier reach.

E.

In article ,
Paul Corfield wrote:


The other day I managed to get to Warren Street from my house in Dalston
in about 25 mins - if it wasn't for the awful Vic/Picc interchange now
at Kings X the Picc line would also be in much easier reach.

Use the old interchange - it's still there! I use it on the way to
work.

How do you get to it?

PS - the 488 might get extended to Dalston Junction in the near future.
A date of end May 2011 is suggested on London Bus Routes.

At last - it's driving us crazy not having the south entrance at DJ
open. I presume they've not been allowed to open it before the bus
arrives but it's been ready for about a year.

E.

In article ,
Paul Corfield wrote:


At last - it's driving us crazy not having the south entrance at DJ
open. I presume they've not been allowed to open it before the bus
arrives but it's been ready for about a year.

Well I can understand that. I assume that London Buses will control the
bus station and therefore they need to make it operational. There's no
point if there are no buses to serve it!

Thanks for King's X info.

re DJ south entrance - there's a lot of point for accessing the trains,
not the buses. Apart from the extra walk, the pavement round the corner
of Dalston Lane and Kingsland road is narrow and uneven, so diverting
some walkers would be useful.

Incidentally at that corner I see the ghost bike marking the poor guy
killed there recently has been moved - and I see now this is because the
council is reportedly going to redesign this dangerous junction. But I
can't see how as there just isn't much space.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread64141.html

E.

Incidentally at that corner I see the ghost bike marking the poor guy
killed there recently has been moved - and I see now this is because the
council is reportedly going to redesign this dangerous junction. But I
can't see how as there just isn't much space.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread64141.html

E.

As you mention that, I always had a plan in my head that they could have
helped out Dalston Junction tremendously by removing the solicitor's
office on the NW corner of the junction and using the space behind it to
expand the junction - while it might not have been "safer" for cyclists
(or maybe it could be!) it would have surely helped out the congestion at
that corner which gets pretty bunged up with buses. Though once they
built new apartments behind the solicitor's office in the space, there
seems zero chance of it happening. (I appreciate that there wasn't any
chance anyway, but *I* thought it would be a great idea....!)

I also hoped that when they knocked down the shops at Graham Road/Mare
St, they were going to widen the junction, but they just built more
ridiculously small shops (and flats) on the same spot.