On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Mizter T wrote:

On 17 Apr, 14:07, "John Rowland"
wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

I think this not insubstantial - there are six bus routes serving
Finchley Road, i believe.

They also serve Swiss Cottage, which has disused Met platforms, and
entrances at northbound and southbound bus stops.

So?

Maybe the point is that you could transfer the Met from Finchley Road to
West Hampstead, and also reopen the Met platforms at Swiss Cottage, and
that would keep everyone happy.

Except people heading to stations south of Swiss Cottage or north of West
Hampstead.

You could probably link Swiss Cottage up with South Hampstead station on
the WCML, too; if/when that gets assimilated into the NLL
post-Bakerloo-to-Watford, that would provide another useful link.

There are three at West Hampstead, and the
overlap with Finchley Road's routes is minimal, so unless many routes
were rearranged, the journeys possible via Finchley Road would be
lost. Finchley Road also has the hugemongous O2 leisure/shopping
centre (and a big Homebase),

The Homebase is nearer to West Hampstead than to Finchley Rd.

Only just. If you're arriving from points south then it would make sense
to alight at Finchley Road, from points east/north then West Hampstead
and the back entrance to Homebase is a good choice.

On the gripping hand, who goes to Homebase without a car, anyway?

and is generally rather more of a high street than West Hampstead.

I don't agree. Finchley Road is all poundstretchers and a strip club,
whereas West Hampstead is bars and restaurants. West Hampstead
certainly has more pedestrians than Finchley Rd at night, and possibly
in the day too.

I disagree with you, I'm with Tom on this one. Finchley Road is more of
a shopping high street (it's got a Woolworths) and it does have lots of
pedestrians during the day - just because it's somewhat down at heel
doesn't disqualify it. And the o2 centre, with a large Sainsbury's, is
always pretty busy.

Yes, West End Road has more people who're out and about on it at night,
but that doesn't mean it's more of a high street.

Basically, what we're saying is that we like strip clubs.

tom

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