On 25 Apr, 01:55, "John Rowland"
wrote:

MIG wrote:

3) Oh look, there's loads of people attracted to the area and a shiny
new station to bring them here, so we can make money by putting a
supermarket here (for which we'll have to knock down everything else).

A new supermarket so close to the massive Camden Sainsburys? I thought they
were building offices.


I think MIG was speaking hypothetically. As you say, there's already a
Sainsbury's, and a Morrisons close by too, so I think a new
supermarket is off the agenda!


I estimated that the money earmarked for rebuilding Camden Town station
would fund a 10-minute 7-day NLL service at Camden Road for a century,
removing the need for so many people to use Camden Town station.


Well, that's a leftfield way of looking at it! Though ultimately
however good you make the NLL at Camden I somehow doubt that's going
to take the pressure off Camden Town enough for the Northern line to
be split in two, which appears to be the long term game plan - after
all the NLL is an east-west line, the Northern line a north-south one.

My questions is, would implementing ATO on the Northern line improve
performance enough so as to make unnecessary the plan to split the
line in two? Probably not is the answer...