On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:59:24 -0000, "Dave Liney"
wrote:
"John Rowland" wrote in message
...
Over time the number of people changing there would fall, as people
reorganise their place of living and place of working around the new
regime...

Are you seriously suggesting that no-one living on the Edgware branch wants
to go to the West End, and that those on the High Barnet branch only want to
go to the City?

People don't arrange their lives around the through running of the Northern
Line.

Not in the short-term, no. But imagine the current service pattern
became permanent. Newcomers and movers within the area evaluate their
accommodation location based on many factors, a key one being ease of
use of public transport. The turnaround of people's lives is
sufficiently high that patterns would change as the months go on. You
only need look at, for example, provincial towns and cities [1] where
parking is difficult to see the exodus of shoppers to more convenient
facilities.

So as daft as it sounds, I think really do organise themselves around
train service patterns!

Sam

[1] I'd cite Cambridge as an example (rather quiet on the run-up to
Christmas) although I have no figures to back this up, and with many
avid Cambridge readers to this ng, I suspect I'd be rather flamed.
grin
--
Sam Holloway, Cambridge

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:38:49 +0000, Sam Holloway
wrote:


So as daft as it sounds, I think really do organise themselves around
train service patterns!


When the work at Blackfriars for Thameslink started, I remember the
Orpington Area Manager saying that it was going to be one of the
biggest white elephants ever. That the number of people travelling
from places like Catford or Croydon to Cricklewood or Mill Hill was
miniscule.

Then Thameslink became reality, people living in Catford found they
*could* apply for a job in Mill Hill (and vice versa) and traffic
rose beyond all expectations.

So it's not daft, and you're right.
--
Bill Hayles

http://billnot.com

In article ,
(Sam Holloway) wrote:

You
only need look at, for example, provincial towns and cities [1] where
parking is difficult to see the exodus of shoppers to more convenient
facilities.

So as daft as it sounds, I think really do organise themselves around
train service patterns!

Sam

[1] I'd cite Cambridge as an example (rather quiet on the run-up to
Christmas) although I have no figures to back this up, and with many
avid Cam

I may be slow in responding but the evidence of the shops' turnover is
firmly against you!

Colin Rosenstiel
Cambridge