Subject: | Re: Crossrail funding approved
| Date: | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:10:39 +0100
| From: | Dave <news.reply.0703@dv-8.demon.co.uk>
| Newsgroups: | uk.transport.london
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Michael Bell <michaelbell@michaelbell.demon.co.uk> writes
> Rather than very expensively create NEW, it might be much
>better value to make best use of what ALREADY IS. Things like create
>interchange at the dozens of places in London where lines cross
>without any interchange at all or stations just too far apart to be
>really "the same place" the remnant of the railway politics of the
>19th century. Places like :-
>
> * The crossing of the North London line with the Northern
>line. A pair of underground stations to be dug out. Simple
>but expensive!
[...]
> It all looks possible, and VERY worthwhile.
And where is the extra capacity to shift all those extra passengers
going to be found?
--
Dave
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