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[email protected] · May 27th 16, 09:51 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Thu, 26 May 2016 18:05:52 -0500
wrote:
In article ,
(Recliner) wrote:

On Wed, 25 May 2016 20:39:34 -0500,
wrote:

In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 03:58:41PM -0000, Recliner wrote:

Former London Assembly Member Val Shawcross has been appointed to
Mayor Sadiq Khan's top team as deputy mayor for transport.

...

Prior to her time at City Hall she served on Croydon council ...

Maybe with a south London transport boss, and a south London mayor,
we'll start to get the same quality of service as the Northerners get.

South London would have to get North London's geology for that, though.

It's much less of an issue with modern tunneling machines. But the
fact remains that south London is already criss-crossed with a dense
network of surface railways, leaving less need for additional TfL lines.

Sort of. It's too complex a network to handle the metro frequency services
required. Read "Turning South London Orange".

Yeah, I don't see that ending well. TfL doesn't currently have a stunning
record on the chingford or enfield lines, can't see how its going to do much
better than Southern if it gets handed all those lines with the same sick
prone and indifferent staff.

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