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Old November 23rd 15, 09:52 AM posted to uk.transport.london
[email protected] spud@potato.field is offline
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Default ELL poorly patronised now

On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 22:10:56 +0000
eastender wrote:
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.


You should do stand-up.

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


Thats useful - given that the ELL didn't start visiting Highbury until 2011.

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Spud