"Dave Arquati" wrote in message
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Sir Benjamin Nunn wrote:

It's a blindingly simple idea, and would almost definitely become the
most
heavily-trafficked tube route out of Central London overnight thanks to
the
existing rapidity of the Vic.

You've just hit the problem. The Victoria is already bursting at the
seams in the peaks. They can't extend it because there isn't enough
capacity on the current route.


So... they are avoiding building the routes for which there would be the
greatest demand...

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Surely extending the Vic Southwards and the Bakerloo South-Easterly would
reduce the bottleneck situations at Stockwell, Kennington and Elephant?

As I see it, the more unique routes that exist, the greater the choice for
the traveller, and therefore the less congested each individual route is.
Because most of the current schemes are only contextually repositioning the
existing infrastructure, they aren't solving the problems at all.

South London needs more rapid routes to the centre, and better radial
connections (ever tried getting from anywhere in South/SW London to SE
London _without_ going into London Bridge? It's a joke).

BTN