On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, MIG wrote:

On Jul 24, 8:59 pm, brixtonite wrote:
On Jul 24, 5:14 pm, Mark Morton wrote:

If you're going to/from Kent, at what point along the DLR Woolwich
branch will it be quicker to go via the DLR and change at Woolwich,
rather than go via Canary Wharf and change at Greenwich on NR? From
anywhere between Bank and King George V. The DLR website gives

Woolwich Arsenal to Bank as 27 minutes, while Greenwich to Bank is 22
minutes; and the train takes 11 - 13 minutes to get from Greenwich to
Woolwich.You'll only be better going via Greenwich if you're travelling
from stations between Pudding Mill Lane and Lewisham.

If you're at Bank, then just get on a train at Cannon Street.

I am trying to work out the main use of the extension.

To get people actually living in Woolwich, or within a short bus ride of
it, to Docklands? That area is one of the major Thames Gateway target
areas, with unwisety thousand homes due to be built. It doesn't go right
into Canary Wharf, but it does go to Poplar, and it's only a few minutes
walk from there to most of the office space in Docklands.

I have to say, it does seem like a bit of a barmy project. A whole new
pair of tubes under the Thames just to serve a station that already has
perfectly good trains! The DLR planners must be thinking about carrying
the line on further - maybe to Thamesmead, Erith and more of the Thames
Gateway target areas. Except they've built the line facing the wrong way
for that ...

Perhaps the best thing about it is that it proves you can actually build
new tunnels, even under the river, without making a huge fuss or spending
a fortune. AlwaysTouchOut prices the project at 145 million all in, for
2.5 km. That would mean the much-needed freight link across from Hoo to
Tilbury would probably only cost 300 million, which is encouraging.

tom

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