On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 07:23:22PM +0000, Paul Terry wrote:
In message , David
Cantrell writes
The DLR will dump you in Greenwich, from where you'll have
to get a train to London Bridge to get to pretty nearly anywhere else.
The Jubilee line, on the other hand, will take you directly to useful
places (like London Bridge or Waterloo), and will do it a lot quicker
too.
Surely National Rail from Greenwich still goes to London Bridge and
Waterloo

Yes. It does it slower than the Jubilee line, less often, and with an
additional inconvenient change. This sub-thread started off with:

The Jubilee line is only running between Waterloo and North Greenwich
is it really worth having it open?
Yes. It provides a vital link across the Isle of Dogs, in turn
connecting East London to South London without the need to go
through the centre.
Doesn't the DLR do that?

My point is that the DLR does a ****-poor job of connecting East London
to South London. In fact, it is only useful for that if you are only
interested in Greenwich or Lewisham. Needless to say, those who live in
Croydon, or Crystal Palace, or Sutton, or several zillion other places
in South London, find the DLR to be about as useful for getting to the
East End as a chocolate bicycle would be.

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