White Hart Lane - can West Anglia actually cope?

I agree the new ground has made travelling by train to the ground after the game much MUCH worse.

some factors that havent been mentioned...


1. The 'new' ground now has a 2 miles radius CPZ ...you can't park a car without a residents permit inside that area. It is more than double the size of the old parking zone. For example, I could park on Queen street just south of the North Middlesex hospital, giving me a 20 walk to the ground. Now parking controls extend way noth of the north circular road, ending just south of Edmonton Green - an infeasable 45 minute walk. 
Thousands of people must now be travelling by rail instead of car. In Cheshunt, parking around the station on matchdays is far higher than before and I'd say these people previously drove to Tottenham.
So, add them to the already increased numbers

2. Buses divert away from the ground - after the club stating they would be press for them allowed onto the High Road outside the ground. Routes like the 279, 149 and 259 all divert at Bruce Grove, go along the Great Cambridge Road and A406 and rejoin on Fore Street. Travelling by bus is therefore a non-starter, forcing people onto the trains
 

It's not that long a walk from Bruce Grove - indeed most people walk from/to Seven Sisters anyway!

Does the "people" figure include the workers, or should that read "other people"
As I understand it, the figures include all fatalities on railway property, regardless of whether a train was involved, so includes for example people falling down steps at a station.

Not sure where you are getting the dates of the most recent fatal accidents from.

There were indeed two fatal accidents in 2003, both on level crossings and neither killing any passengers on the trains involved, but the same is true of 2005 and there have been several more fatalities at level crossings since then - the most recent for which I can find a report was in 2014.

Apart from incidents involving road vehicles on the track (Ufton Nervet, Great Heck), the only fatalities to passengers on board trains since the turn of the century have been at Hatfield (2000), Potters Bar (2002) and Grayrigg (2007). In the last-mentioned, a passenger suffered a fatal heart attack, probably brought on by the derailment, but there were no other fatalities.

I explicitly linked the source in my post: an ORR document about railway safety.
The figures do not include deaths at levelcrossings, but they don't include them for either year so we are comparing like with like which is the point.

That you are quibbling over whether a few years in the last 15 years have had 0, 1 or 2 fatal accidents rather proves the point I was making that the railway is a lot safer now than it was in the 1960s when two fatal crashes meant an exceptionally safe year rather than an exceptionally deadly one.

I know for a fact that the old LNER had plans to four track this area up the lea valley way way back even with first thoughts before WW2. Revived in the 45=46 era, the money was never forthcoming. Quite a few minor structural things were however done with this in long term mind. Maybe we are seeing a trifle of this at last. Should help with all this agony.