Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2011 20:39:11 GMT
Haven't written much here for a while, you maybe think that now everything is done on the eastern part of the Jubilee Line, all is fine. But no.
Take last weekend. Out in the east the DLR was all closed down, from both Bank and Tower Gateway. Meanwhile the nearby District Line was closed as well. So everything was put onto the Jubilee Line, as the buses that came instead for both lines were focused on Canning Town and Canary Wharf. What a crush.
But I don't think the normal Saturday trains were planned to operate there either, they do seem to be reduced when the part beyond West Hampstead is closed, as it was yet again. We also guessed there was something major on at the O2. When we went into Central London on Saturday afternoon people couldn't get in at Canary Wharf - on a Saturday! And coming back in the evening people were left behind at Waterloo going our way, and it seemed to be worse going the other way.
Despite all this our train back in the evening from Green Park was 7 minutes ahead of the next one. It must have been late because it ran at full speed all the way to Canning Town, where it was now 10 minutes ahead of the one behind. Which might be good for us, but not so much for those people left behind at Waterloo, is it?
Is there still no coordination of any sort between the works on the different routes? Does anyone at the TfL headquarters ever think that with three parallel lines, stopping two of them and providing buses to the third, but then only running less trains than normal on that third, is just mad?
Take last weekend. Out in the east the DLR was all closed down, from both Bank and Tower Gateway. Meanwhile the nearby District Line was closed as well. So everything was put onto the Jubilee Line, as the buses that came instead for both lines were focused on Canning Town and Canary Wharf. What a crush.
But I don't think the normal Saturday trains were planned to operate there either, they do seem to be reduced when the part beyond West Hampstead is closed, as it was yet again. We also guessed there was something major on at the O2. When we went into Central London on Saturday afternoon people couldn't get in at Canary Wharf - on a Saturday! And coming back in the evening people were left behind at Waterloo going our way, and it seemed to be worse going the other way.
Despite all this our train back in the evening from Green Park was 7 minutes ahead of the next one. It must have been late because it ran at full speed all the way to Canning Town, where it was now 10 minutes ahead of the one behind. Which might be good for us, but not so much for those people left behind at Waterloo, is it?
Is there still no coordination of any sort between the works on the different routes? Does anyone at the TfL headquarters ever think that with three parallel lines, stopping two of them and providing buses to the third, but then only running less trains than normal on that third, is just mad?
