Tom Anderson wrote:
On 19 Aug 2004, Boltar wrote:


if they ever extend it to Highgate highlevel via finsbury park and the
parklandwalk then one island platform and standing in the rain without a
roof ,will do me...... but then again at highgate highlevel they is already
a platform and 1930 waiting room biult for the extention and hardly used

That'll never happen. Aside from the fact that they'd have to build a
whole new flyover at finsbury park can you imagine the Nimby factor in
Crouch End when all the yoghurt knitting right-ons in the area find out
that their tranquil woodland path nearby is going to be converted back
into a railway.


Sadly, true.

Although:

http://www.garden.force9.co.uk/Lawn.htm

Solved!

More to the point, the disused track bed from Finsbury Park to Highgate
provides a very pleasant, off road walk. They are pretty unusual things
to find in London. I (an enthusiast of the tube and someone who
travelled from Manor House to Highgate this morning) have very mixed
feelings about gain v loss for this project. It strikes me that the loss
of a "green line" like this would be very sad.

Of course, if one were to propose digging up some roads and making them
into paths to compensate I might be more interested. Especially if there
was a law that required the police to shoot able-bodies people dawdling
along roads and clogging them up.

Francis Davey