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eastender[_5_] · November 20th 15, 10:10 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 2015-11-20 20:57:58 +0000, Paul Corfield said:

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:36:14 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

I took the ELL from Highbury this morning for the first time in about 6 months.
Even after the obligatory 7 minute wait for the train to leave it was still
only a 3rd full in the middle of the morning rush hour. Compared to last time
I used it this is virtually empty. I can only assume the poor service
frequency and slow journey times (25 mins to do the 4 miles to canada water
this morning) have put people off as they did me. What a waste of an asset.

So on the basis of a one journey sample the entire service is "poorly
patronised" and an "asset is being wasted"! Hardly a statistically
robust analysis and if anyone put forward that level of evidence as
proof against something you believed you'd tear them a new posterior
in arguing with them.

LOL. He's definitely not Spud-u-Like.

I looked up the passeger journey figures for the Overground as a whole
and they've about tripled since 2010. I couldn't see any breakdown by
line - are these figures on line do you know?

E.