On Aug 10, 3:27*pm, wrote:

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:18:58 -0700 (PDT)
Mizter T wrote:
It's also possible that people living "further out on the Piccadilly"
would use it as a short cut to/from the West End, thereby overloading
the Central.

Yeah, I had similar thoughts. Still, it would serve to make the
Rayners Lane branch of the Piccadilly more useful.

The central seems to cope with an interchange with the district at stratford
where I'm sure a load of people change onto the central to continue to
the city and west end so I can't see a lightly used branch like rayners lane
unduly affecting the central much in the other direction.

The Central interchanges with the District at Mile End, down the road
from Stratford, and it also (cross-platform) interchanges with the
heavily used Great Eastern suburban services at Stratford. As to the
eastern end Central seeming to cope, well I don't think it really does
- hence the need for relief from Crossrail.

Re the lightly used Rayners Lane branch - the point was just that it
might become a bit more heavily used if it gave easy access to the
Central, with the potential for ensuing capacity issues for the
western end of the Central. That said, I can't quite see it being a
massive issue - though maybe everyone from Uxbridge might suddenly
desert the Met!