In message , solar penguin
writes

It's ridiculous. The ELLX will cause chaos to lines around South
London, just to allow a few people in Sydenham to get to Hoxton more
easily. Why? I can't believe Sydenham is _really_ that full of people
all saying "I wish we could get to Hoxton more easily," or vice versa.
Maybe I'm wrong, but somehow it doesn't seem right to disrupt lines that
take people where we actually want to go, just to build a line that
doesn't go anywhere useful!

I doubt if many people from Sydenham will want to go to Hoxton. Surely
the relevant question is how many people from Sydenham (and other
stations on the line) work in Docklands and would benefit from
travelling via Canary Wharf or Shadwell?

I don't know the answer to that, but I do know that increasing
development in Docklands is having an enormous impact on traditional
travel routes over a wide area.

--
Paul Terry