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Old August 6th 12, 06:59 PM
Robin9 Robin9 is offline
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Originally Posted by Paul Corfield View Post
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 13:20:54 +0100, Robin9
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martin_petrov;132158 Wrote:
On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:37:41 +0000, boltar2003 wrote:
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So the eastern end of the central line has been shut down twice now
during the Olympics for the usual pathetic excuses. Can Blunderground
go
for the hat-trick and win Olympic gold in the synchronised team
incompetance?-

I guess you've been saving "London Blunderground" up for this - you must

be gutted that all you've got is a couple of minor incidents that really

had zero impact on people getting to the games?


Zero impact? TfL were advising passengers to avoid both the Jubilee and

Central Lines and instead to go by District Line to West Ham . . . and
to
walk from there to the Olympic Park! Do you know how far that is? Do you

know how many elderly people were obliged to make that expedition?
Westfield Shopping Centre was closed to non Olympic people. A new,
major shopping precinct closed! Zero impact!


Go on then - please enlighten us with the stats about elderly people
walking the Greenway and the mass deprivation wrought on East London
because a shopping centre was closed for a few hours?

You'd think there were no other bloody shops in East London the way
people keep bringing up the "Westfield was closed" argument as some
example of armageddon.

The simple issue is that TfL have been encouraging people to use the
Greenway rather than overload Stratford. You can't blame them for
wanting to spread the load across a number of locations and also
across alternative services.

The facts as I understand them is that system usage has broken
previous records on a couple of days, overall the services have been
pretty reliable but there have been a few serious disruptions (Central
Line, District Line). Nonetheless people have managed to get to the
Park or venues - I have yet to hear or read of mass complaints and
moaning despite endless attempts by the media to generate them. The
plan was always to have contingency in place so that there was no over
reliance on a single link to Stratford.

I've used the bus to or through Stratford a few times and journey
times have been lower than usual because of less road congestion and
the bus station has functioned pretty well. So far so good but if you
wish to keep generating woe out of not much at all then please keep
going.
--
Paul C
What an elaborate decoy! No attempt to answer my question about the
distance people had to walk from West Ham Station. No attempt to quantify
the problems which caused TfL to recommend that people should abandon any
attempt to travel by Jubilee or Central Line.

Instead we get a fraudulent suggestion that "people keep bringing up" the
closing of Westfield. I'm not aware of anyone citing it apart from myself. Then
we have a pointless counter question. This is followed by an irrelevant Tfl
apologia: that they had already planned to use the West Ham/Greenway
escape route. So what? people who wanted to travel by Jubilee or Central Line
had by default chosen not to go via West Ham, and being suddenly obliged to use
a different route involving walking quite some way does not constitute zero impact.
And if TfL knew in advance that Stratford Station would not be able cope, why had
they not done something about it when rebuilding the station during the preceding years?
Finally we have a completely irrelevant paragraph about buses at Stratford Station
even though TfL had not recommended that people travel by bus as an alternative
to the Jubilee or Central Line.