On 29 Jan, 15:02, "John Rowland"
wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

To be fair, extending the Poplar/ Bow Church line to Stratford Int'l
would have required some very expensive construction

From Stratford to the nearest end of the International station is only 300
metres. 100 seconds on a travelator has to be better than waiting 10 minutes
for a 30 second ride on a DLR train. Even if you were coming from Canning
Town on a DLR train, changing at Stratford for a 100 second travolator is
hardly a major hardship compared to spending another 30 seconds on the DLR.

I agree - though I make it more like 400-450 metres, though of course
it depends on where you're measuring from, and I also think the DLR
service is going to be a bit more frequent than that. But as I said,
as to your basic point I agree that the Int'l station really is rather
close to the existing 'Regional' one.

But don't you remember the fuss about the travelator - it was in the
original plans but then got dropped by LCR in 2006 because it was
deemed to expensive. I don't know the details that surround this
however.