"Recliner" wrote in message
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Roland Perry wrote:
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, at 09:22:12 on Thu, 29 May 2014, Recliner
remarked:
It does suggest that Crossrail will
indeed fill up soon after opening.

I don't think anyone doubts that... the question is, for how many years
will the Central Line be a ghost town, until Crossrail becomes so
unbearably crowded that the Central Line starts being used by people
who
are in no hurry but just want to travel without their nose in someone's
armpit.

My guess is that the Central line will remain fairly crowded, at least
on
the western side.

Also on the east, from those many places where a Central Line station is
closer than a Crossrail one.

But won't many cross the platform to change to Crossrail at Stratford,

To save 3 or 4 minutes on a journey to Z1. I doubt it.

the number of people already on the Central at Stratford with a destination
beyond Padd will be insignificant.

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