Post by littlecog on Oct 18, 2008 16:58:54 GMT
For some time I lived in Stratford, and while there was work to be had, it was very often at the far western end of the Met, from Harrow on the Hill onwards, and quite often at Rickmansworth and Chalfont & Latimer. This would take me up to 90 minutes, from leaving home to signing in, which was sort of okay given the on-the-ground distance. But if I were travelling to similar places from Hampton/Feltham, which I did one night a week, I would have to leave at exactly the same time, despite there being thirty miles less to travel. Had I a car it would take me fifteen minutes (travelling late at night round the nearly empty M25) - but train requires a bus to Hounslow East, a change at Acton Town, a change at Rayners Lane, change at Harrow and a change at Chalfont.
The 34 years you talk about cover 6 year of "Events, dear boy" - then 18 years of Tory misrule and 10 years of Labour incompetence and hide-bound cowardice. (Mr. Tony was indeed a safe pair of hands.) I don't think rail projects stood a chance.
More specifically to the NLL: is it the freight paths that keep the service at its current level, with old signalling that's fine for the current low speeds, making it all self-fulfilling?
