Tom Anderson wrote in message ...
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, David Marsh wrote:

So Waterloo is a good and cheap solution for those north of London

The interchange between St Pancras and Waterloo is poor, especially when
carrying luggage.

How infeasible (read: costly) would it be to build an underground
travelator link between Euston Station (with access from the mainline
and the Underground) to St Pancras International

Better:

PEDESTRIANISE EUSTON ROAD!

Think about it - a broad, leafy (plant some trees), elegant avenue running
from Paddington to King's Cross (if you also do the Marylebone Road and
integrate the land around Paddington Basin), in front of some of the most
refined buildings in northern central London (and some ****ty ones too, of
course). It would be completely wonderful! Stick that in your Piazza San
Marco, Venice, and smoke it!

Not sure what you'd do with the cars, though. I'd suggest cut-and-covering
a highway underneath the avenue, but the Metropolitan Line's got there
first. Perhaps another tunnel could be dug alongside it. Yes! And at the
eastern end, it could carry on through the Widened Lines tunnels, to
Moorgate! Two birds with one stone!

Also not sure how cars would get from the tunnel and the side roads; i bet
that Funky Junction guy could work something out.

Really, though, consider the alternatives:

(a) Cars on the surface, people underground
(b) People on the surface, cars underground

Or (c) People on the surface, buses crossing at grade (side street to
side street - maybe there can be a bus lane in each direction along
the Euston Rd), cars use A406 or M25 to the correct radial.

Then demolish Westway. Add a rail connector from the H&C to the
Central, turn all Central Line trains at White City, whilst the Inner
Suburban services (eg Gerrard's Cross, Slough, Heathrow) are
transferred into Paddington over the H&C (basically an extra pair of
tracks).

Demolish the West Cross Route too. That way, you can get four tracks
on the WLL, allowing both local and through services
(Birmingham/Manchester/Liverpool to Brighton/Eastbourne/Kent,
anyone?).

This would be better for North Kensington than any amount of Funky
Junk.


(And while I'm in tunnel-digging mode, why not merge Embankment and
Charing Cross Northern/Bakerloo stations into one station (on each line)
with travelators to shrink the distance/time from the existing
entrances, to save the time of an extra station stop?

This is also obviously right.

And very expensive. Perhaps they could install cross-platform
interchange at the same time.

James.