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Mill Hill East
MIG wrote:
John B wrote: Kev wrote: This does sound like the thin end of the wedge. Ask people who used to use the Watford Junc to Broad St (Liverpool St) and Watford to Croxley service what they think of this. OK, so in the first case a poor frequency service has been replaced partly with the current NLL clockface 4tph timetable (set for further improvements under TfL Rail) and will be replaced further with the ELLX between Dalston and Shoreditch. In the second case, the link is set to be rebuilt with more useful connections. During London's decades of stagnation and decline, many useful rail links were short-sightedly destroyed. The ideological antipathy of a progression of governments and transport ministers towards public transport didn't help matters. However, it's now clear that the default mode for public transport in London is one of expansion not contraction. Since Mill Hill East isn't an Aldwych or an Ongar but somewhere with decent loadings, it would therefore be hard to see why anyone would choose to close it... But once it loses the through service it will have poor loadings. Aldwych is right in the centre of London, but that didn't save it. I don't suppose for a moment it would have closed if it had a through service (or why not close Temple, St Pauls or Chancery Lane?). Not sure of the logic here - St Paul's and Chancery Lane are extremely busy during the week. Roding Valley, Chigwell and Grange Hill are still open, despite having much poorer demand (only about enough to support a bus service, let alone rail). Mill Hill East annual entry + exit: 0.875m (~1500 weekday entries) c.f. Chigwell: 0.19m (~400 weekday entries) or Chancery Lane: 11.326m (~20,000 weekday entries) or Temple: 6.659m (~11,850 weekday entries) -- Dave Arquati Imperial College, SW7 www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London |
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