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Re: Crossrail gets Treasury backing (was Re: London's five-year plan) |
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Posted by Fytton on Wed Oct 20 05:25:06 2004, in response to Re: Crossrail gets Treasury backing (was Re: London's five-year plan), posted by Rail Blue on Tue Oct 19 18:53:43 2004. "But we don't need another East-West line. The problem is that too many people are using only one of the existing ones, which happens to be the one with the smallest trains anyway."The reason the Central Line is so successful is that it goes where people want to go - right through the heart of The City and the West End. The north (Metropolitan) and south (District) sides of the Circle don't. The north side, in particular, is more than walking distance from most West End destinations, so people change in their millions at Kings Cross or Baker Street to get to the West End. Encouraging more use of the south side of the Circle (the District Line) makes a lot more sense. Presumably that was the reason why the cross-platform interchange between the Central and the District at Mile End was provided in the 1940s - yet London Underground seems to keep it secret; I've never seen any publicity encouraging people to use it. And stations like Temple, Embankment and Westminster are pretty close to important destinations. Crossrail, whatever its faults, is meant to be an express version of the Central Line. I see it as part of the same concept as Thameslink 2000 - fast cross-London services, one north-south, the other east-west, the two connecting at Farringdon. |
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