So the Tory candidate won in Putney and one of her objectives is to sort out
the District Line.

Does she have even the foggiest idea of what she's talking about?

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Brimstone wrote:

So the Tory candidate won in Putney and one of her objectives is to sort out
the District Line.

Does she have even the foggiest idea of what she's talking about?

What? She's a politician. I'm not sure i understand the question.

Oh - maybe by 'sort out' she means 'convert into parking space and/or an
A-road'?

tom

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Brimstone wrote:
So the Tory candidate won in Putney and one of her objectives is to
sort out
the District Line.

Does she have even the foggiest idea of what she's talking about?

She claimed (in her campaign material) that LU have agreed to extend
the Wimblewares by one carriage. I asked LU customer services who said
that hadn't been decided and at any rate wouldn't happen until
2013-2016 due to platform length issues. Ms Greening didn't reply to
my email querying this.

She wants to renew the track (apparently that's happening on the 21/22
May anyway so she doesn't need to do much - I wonder if she will have
claimed to have done it.

She does have experience of using it frequently and has been
campaigning about it (rather quietly) for a while though. Hopefully
she will campaign for sensible things to be done to improve the line
rather than expecting the impossible.

Chris! wrote:
She claimed (in her campaign material) that LU have agreed to extend
the Wimblewares by one carriage. I asked LU customer services who
said
that hadn't been decided and at any rate wouldn't happen until
2013-2016 due to platform length issues. Ms Greening didn't reply to
my email querying this.

That would be quite some accomplishment! Even now, the platform at
Bayswater is only just long enough for a C stock train, and that's
stopping slightly beyond the platform edge!
If she gets another carriage added, the trains will have to run
non-stop from High Street Kensington to Edgware Road!

On 6 May 2005 17:40:05 -0700, DistrictDriver wrote:

If she gets another carriage added, the trains will have to run
non-stop from High Street Kensington to Edgware Road!

Which means they'll get to Putney quicker.

Perhaps she's not so stupid, after all ;-)

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