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Posted by Fytton on Fri Oct 29 05:19:34 2004, in response to London's five-year plan, posted by David Fairthorne on Mon Oct 11 23:32:14 2004. The press release about the Transport for London (TfL) five-year Business Plan lan has finally appeared on their website today, Friday 29 October.One entertaining error - the extension of the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow Terminal 5 is listed under the Docklands Light Railway heading! And so is the rebuilding of Kings Cross St Pancras underground station to link up with the new Channel Tunnel Rail Link terminus at St Pancras. I think I'll apply for a job as a proofreader with TfL when I retire from the university.... Most of the stuff we already knew about. Apparently the 45% increase in capacity for the Jubilee Line, promised to the International Olympic Committee, is to be achived by running longer trains - if they are going to be 45% longer, then some very very expensive station lengthening is going to be required (and I don't believe it will happen). What is a bit depressing is a subtle shift away from rail - the East London and Greenwich "rapid transit" schemes are that well-known abomination, "bus rapid transit", which just means plain old buses, unless they are really going to have extensive bus-only roads. The Greenwich scheme is really only an upgrading of the existing bus network from Thamesmead to try to get some more usage at that magnificent white elephant, North Greenwich tube station. And there is nothing there about any extensions of the Croydon Tramlink, or the West London Tram, about which public consultations have recently taken place. From which we assume nothing will happen regarding any new tram schemes until after 2010 at the earliest. |
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