London Banter - View Single Post - CrossRail or CrossConnections? Guns or butter?

Colin Rosenstiel · April 20th 04, 01:42 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Solar Pennguin) wrote:

"John Rowland" wrote [about the NLL]...

The main bottleneck is generally alleged to be freight paths between
just west of Stratford and Camden Road (and to a lesser extent as far
as South Acton).

Since most of this frieght is coming from places outside London and
going to other places outisde London, does it look like there's a case
for opening outer orbital routes like Cambridge/Huntingdon/Bedford?
Even if they don't generate enough passengers to be viable *on* *their*
*own*, by helping freight avoid the London bottlenecks, they'd still
free up capacity for better services in London such as improved NLL
frequencies.

Oh, no, wait. That would mean integrated transport planning. Silly me.
It'll never happen...

The official alternative is from Felixstowe across the Fens to
Peterborough and then via Leicester to Nuneaton. Unfortunately it's not
electrified so Freightliner can't use their cheap class 86s as they can
via London. And the Government cut the funding for improvements/clearance
for 9'6" containers on that route recently.

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Colin Rosenstiel