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Posted by Rail Blue on Fri Oct 29 19:49:37 2004, in response to Re: London's five-year plan, posted by Fytton on Fri Oct 29 05:19:34 2004. 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).They could probably get a 45% increase just by running more trains on a line like the Jubilee. Given that it runs 18-20tph, a 45% increase would be 26-29tph. Not impossible. With a lengthening from 6 to 7 cars (which would mean no platform lengthenings - just a few "the last set of doors won't open" messages), this would be reduced to 22-25tph, which is probably more to LU managers tastes (and would please the PFIdiots with an expensive new order for a 4 car version of 96 Stock). I don't believe it will happen. Firstly, London won't get the games; and secondly, even if it did, what would the point be in running extra trains on a line which doesn't go where people want to go? 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. It's what you get for prioritising JLE, ELLX and Crossrail over twenty cheaper projects. You get a big white elephant and the ordinary people are no better off. The really disingenuous thing is how much these BRT "schemes" cost compared to the council's Highways Dept doing the job and the bus company operating the buses along the new priority measures. 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. Which isn't going to work. Most people will still work their way to Abbey Wood or Woolwich Arsenal. The only way North Greenwich is going to work is to demolish the Dome and build a large council estate on the site. Otherwise it will remain out on a limb on one side and cut off on the other three. 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. :-( but those were two of the few sensible schemes! |
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