On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:34:41PM +0000, Paul Corfield wrote:

http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor%E2%80...ervices-london

The proposal centres on taking over the local "West Anglia" routes out
of Liverpool Street and the inner suburban services on South Eastern.
There is a report linked from the above press release.

It's a damned shame that, if you look at the map and charts on page 21,
the areas proposed for a TfL takeover are those that already have the
best service. It would be better to concentrate on areas served by
Southern and Southwest Trains, as they serve areas that have a lower
train frequency and very few tube stations.

The diagram on page 29 bears out the complaints I've been making here
about the recent Clapham Junction to Shepherds Bush improvements being
little more than cosmetic. They are predicted to be woefully inadequate
within a decade - indeed, they are inadequate already. We can assume
that all of those figures are under-estimates, given that it says that
there are *no* passengers having to stand between Battersea Park and
Balham - that's not true now, and certainly won't be in a decade's time.

And I'm surprised that there's no mention of HS2 or Old Oak Common.

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