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Dave Arquati · February 19th 05, 12:57 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

Tony Polson wrote:
(Charles Ellson) wrote:

In article "Dave Arquati" writes:

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Someone said it would be better to have a SE rail authority rather than
a "central London dominated" TfL - but since the rail network is central
London dominated, from that point of view, there isn't much of a
difference, as a SE rail authority would be London-dominated anyway.

That view only works if you ignore that journeys have two ends, and
allow one part of the area to be the tail that wags the dog.

My point, exactly.

Journeys have two ends; one end is frequently in central London. How
many journeys start or finish at Victoria versus at Maidstone, or High
Wycombe, or Hatfield? Even if a rail authority proportionally
represented the origins and destinations of all journeys on the South
East rail network, almost half the "seats" would be occupied by
representation of central London; probably over half would be
representatives from inside the GLA, i.e. TfL.

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

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