On 05/10/2013 15:27, Recliner wrote:
From:
http://www.economist.com/news/britai...s-commute-loop

London Overground



Since it opened in 2010—with extensions in 2011 and 2012—the London
Overground changed two things. First, the way that commuters get around the
capital has shifted. In 2008, 33m passengers zipped up and down the
service. Last year 120m did.

Is that a like-for like comparison, or is it comparing (say) just the
inner bit of what was Silverlink with that plus all the pax on what was
LU's East London Line, bits of Southern, etc?

Fully 64% of those who use the network are
getting to and from work. This initially lightened heavily congested trains
on the Southern service(another line running along the route) with 46% of
new passengers swapping from other train services.

Passengers swapping, or the service swapping and the passengers
obviously having to swap too? A few years ago, Southern went from
carrying zero passengers to carrying as many as Connex SC had, and that
was achieved overnight!

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK