On 23 Nov 2007 14:43:36 GMT, Adrian wrote:

it turns out that until recently the patronage figures for KXSP were
artifically inflated - apparently you were recorded twice if you made a
deep-level - sub-surface interchange at KXSP, until of course
paid-side interchange routes were opened in October 2006.

That seems a VERY big decline, even considering that.

After all, correcting that double-count is only halving the number of
passengers who interchanged at KXSP for two to three of the twelve months
of the year - yet that's a drop of about 25% year-on-year. It plain don't
make sense, unless half of the total annual passenger throughput changed
trains there from October to December...?

I suspect a simple answer - I wonder how many people simply decided to
use other stations or avoid the area whilst the redevelopment chaos was
going on?

Or had no choice? There were lots of weekends with the Picc
non-stopping at KXSP, SSL closures between Baker Street and Liverpool
Street, etc.

Plus Network Rail deciding there would be no service on WAGN/FCC-GN at
weekends can't have helped. (Most people with a car would use that
over a replacement bus to KX.)