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Water musician · February 16th 16, 09:49 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 16 Feb 2016, d wrote
(in article ):

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 18:44:38 +0000
eastender wrote:
On 2016-02-15 12:06:25 +0000, d said:

I see the ELL is closed it for 9 days. I had my suspicions that it wasn't
being
taken seriously as a transport link by TfL given its slow service and
poor
timetable, and this rather proves it. Can you imagine any tube line being
closed for that many consecutive days now unless there had been a major
incident?

It's closed because of one of the largest civil engineering projects
ever in Europe. As you don't use it anyway, you will not be
inconvenienced.

No, its closed because TfL don't believe in installing reversing points.
To close 3 miles of the line that could satisfactorily operated otherwise
just because of work at one station is pathetic.

Presumably you DO believe in paying a £6 (or might it be a tenner?)
single-zone fare to fund lots of enhancements.

Would you prefer to share the cost across all London households, charging us
an extra few quid on monthly council tax?

If lots of people agree, maybe TfL could set up a system enhancements
charitable trust to which you could all make monthly donations!

Of course, if we had a different political system (France, NL, Germany?) we
might have the optimum urban rail networks, rather than the affordable
versions. OTOH, if we had another different political system (USA?) we might
have ALMOST NO urban rail networks.

Choice.