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Mill Hill East
MIG wrote:
Peter Smyth wrote: According to the Hendon Times, Mill Hill East services will be reduced to a shuttle to Finchley Central off-peak and weekends from October 2006. http://www.hendontimes.co.uk/news/lo... ondon_cut.php And closure following closely no doubt. Yet another service reduction disguised as "reliability", even though for the time being there will still be through services at the busiest and potentially most problematic times. Why don't they genuinely improve reliability by doubling the track? The service is being made less attractive so that a decline in use can be given as an excuse to make more cuts, leading to more unattractiveness and further decline in use. The most reliable railway is one that runs no trains at all: none are ever late or cancelled. I don't think this is fair. It's uncontroversial among transport planning professionals that the more branches a service has, the more scope there is for it to go wrong. This is particularly pronounced in a system as complicated as the Northern Line, where minor delays in one branch have the potential to cause serious system-wide distruption once trains start arriving out of timetabled order in the wrong places. The Northern Line would be significantly more reliable if the junction at Camden were abolished and all trains ran either Edgware - City - Morden and High Barnet - Charing Cross - Kennington. This isn't feasible, at least until Camden Town is rebuilt (and possibly not even then): the station is not big enough to take the required volume of interchanging passengers. It would also be significantly more reliable if the signalling were replaced to allow ATO. This will happen, but not for years. On the other hand, the interchange at Finchley Central is easily capable of taking the required volume of Mill Hill East passengers, and this change can happen with immediate effect. The cost of the manoeuvre to MHE pax is very limited: they can get a once-every-four-mins train to Finchley, then a once-every-15-mins shuttle to MHE as-now. This increases the average expected through journey time by about 2 minutes (can't be bothered to do the proper maths), while providing no reduction in service frequency. If the result is to make a substantial reduction in total Misery Line misery, which it should be, then it seems like a good plan... -- John Band john at johnband dot org www.johnband.org |
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