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Crossrail could bankrupt London - says Ken Livingstone
On 27 Mar, 23:59, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Andy wrote: On Mar 26, 6:53 pm, Tom Anderson wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Mr Thant wrote: On 25 Mar, 23:49, Tom Anderson wrote: The Jubilee? To Docklands. AIUI the Jubilee between London Bridge and North Greenwich is already one of the most congested bits of the network. Right. And how is Crossrail going to relieve that? By letting people on the North Kent line from east of Abbey Wood change there? That's not exactly a huge fraction of the Jubilee's passengers, is it? And don't they already have the option to do Greenwich - Docklands by DLR? Not that that's exactly a high-capacity route itself. There will also be the East London Line extension feeding passengers in at Whitechapel. These passengers who would currently goto London Bridge for the Jubilee line. Oh, i see. So, Kent - New Cross Gate - Whitechapel - Canary Wharf? They'll make two changes and a sort of spiral round Docklands? ITYM New Cross as opposed to New Cross Gate - NX being the potential interchange point for people coming in from some parts of Kent, though of course only so many trains actually stop there, others charge through non-stop en route to London Bridge. Of course the above route via Whitechapel is a nonsense for those headed to the Docklands. If they were using the ELLX they'd head to Canada Water and then pile on the (already crowded) Jubilee line one stop to Canary Wharf. Given that it's just one stop in a way one could say that the overcrowding isn't that big an issue for these passengers - unless of course the Jubilee trains are so crowded that no more people could actually get on board them. And of course Crossrail will relieve this by taking passengers currently using the Jubilee from central London to get to the Docklands and instead putting them on Crossrail trains to the new Isle of Dogs station next to Canary Wharf (and indeed beyond to Custom House). |
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