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Recliner[_4_] · August 6th 20, 09:47 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 11:44:00 +0100, "tim..."
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On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:48:58 +0100
Recliner wrote:
On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 07:49:13 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 17:26:36 +0100
Basil Jet wrote:
On 03/08/2020 16:00, wrote:

Quite possibly, however that doesn't change the fact that the DLR
is
the
tubes poor relation and adding yet another branch to it would be a
disaster.

I don't see how you can say that. There are parts of the tube where
an
extra branch would be great, there are parts where it would not.
The
same is true of the DLR. It's just a network of lines, like the
tube.

Well I suppose it depends where it connects, but if the trains run
to
Bank
which they'll need to to be any use it'll clog up an already clogged
up
route
(covid notwithstanding).

Why would future Thamesmead commuters take the DLR all the way to
Bank, even if there were direct trains?

City workers. If the DLR went out that way it would become a commuter
hotspot
to central london and canary wharf.

only if you want to live in one of London's most deprived areas

How do you know? The aim is to build a new town.

there's already a huge estate of council flats there

are they going to knock those down?

I think that's the idea.

Hum,

seems ambitious to me, to move 40,000 people first

of course if you knock just one block down and leave 39,000 low rent people
as neighbours the only tenants you are going to get for those new properties
are people who look the people next door

The plan to build on more land in the area, as you would have seen if you
read the plan I posted.

For example, Southmere Village:
https://www.thamesmeadnow.org.uk/the-plan/growth-and-regeneration/south-thamesmead/southmere-village/

You can't gentrify an area by building a single high quality property next
to dozens of low quality properties

It's been tried before, and it usually doesn't work

Agreed, they would need to raise the tone of the whole area. You can't sell
upmarket houses next to a rough council estate.

not something the average city worker aspires to

It'll appeal to people who can afford properties in the new town, and
work somewhere in London (not just the City).

I don't need to be told the geographical advantages, I'm not an idiot

You missed the point,

I missed something that you didn't say

so, yes you are.

that makes me uninformed, not an idiot

Your choice of word, not mine.

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