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Posted by Max Roberts on Thu Oct 21 12:34:00 2004, in response to Re: London's five-year plan, posted by Rail Blue on Thu Oct 21 12:18:05 2004. I guess that Parisians don't see why they should help the rest of the world, or even other French people. Have you ever tried to get from Gare du Nord to Metro Line 2? Although shown as an interchange on the map, its completely unsignposted. You have to go through the fare control at "Magenta Station", but there is no way of finding that out.The other idea I have is to rebuild Aldgate East with an island platform. With cross platform interchanges, and the W&C line extended, no one at my end (Liverpool Street) would even notice the demise of the Circle Line. At the other end, send the Bakerloo Line to the surface and down the H&C, and run a Wimbledon-Paddington-Barking service. Three flat junctions gone at a stroke, plus the awful paddington-stations situation. No more guesswork for eastbound passengers. You could probably manage an Edgware Road to South Kensington shuttle with minimal disruption and then no one would miss the Circle Line at all anywhere. The trouble with todays planners is as soon as they get their pencils out, they start adding zeros to the bill. Expansion by stealth and logical progressive developments are gone. If it doesn't cost a billion, they are not interested. We had the marketing co-ordinator for the ELX project giving a talk at the London Underground Railway Society a couple of months ago. That lot don't have a clue as to what they are doing. Hardly surprising. ELX planning was taken on by the SRA, who have no metro planning or running experience whatsoever. |
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