On Oct 8, 2:10*pm, Boltar wrote:
On Oct 8, 1:35 pm, Mr Thant
wrote:

The flyover will be lowered significantly at its east end to pass
under the West India Quay-Poplar viaduct and reconnect on the east
side of the viaduct into Canary Wharf.

God almighty , just how hard would it have been to build a working
triangular junction in the first place??

B2003

When the original network was built in the mid 1980s, the plans for
the Canary Wharf development were much smaller (much like the
surrounding developments, less than ten stories etc.) and so a small
railway was all that was thought to be need. Remember that the
original network was built for only £77million (from memory) and this
included the 11 trains; it was a simple three legged network, with the
delta junction (which is the location in question) at the heart
allowing services from one leg to any other and this junction had no
problems coping with the early service levels. This design was used to
minimise the cost of getting the network opened. Yes, this early penny
pinching has led to all the redesigns/rebuilding as the network has
expanded, but, without it, the DLR would probably never have opened in
the first place.