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[email protected] · October 26th 06, 02:11 PM posted to uk.transport.london

TheOneKEA wrote:
wrote:
Its a great shame that a useful rail link is being closed. When I
travel on it, it often seems fairly full, certainly there are less well
used routes.

It's not useful. It has far too little capacity and runs through some
less than modern areas of southeast London. The DLR on the other hand
has far more capacity to run a proper service to serve the airport, and
has the advantage of providing a direct connection to the City and a
single-change connection to Canary Wharf, whereas the NLL only goes to
Stratford and beyond. The demographics of the area suggest that most
people want to go elsewhere in Docklands, not to Hackney.

Its not either/or. The DLR runs into the city from the airport at
present and does so without the necessity of closing the silverlink. I
don't object to that (though would prefer a more comfortable ride),
what I don't see is the need to close the silverlink and put in the DLR
from canning town to stratford.

Francis