On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:44:40 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:39:22 +0100, steve wrote:

If we are talking about closing the bank section of the Northern Line
again then quite rightly given last time they closed it for several
months.

I am proposing, quite seriously, the idea of closing a complete line at a
time (with suitable bus replacement services feeding other lines via areas
of as low traffic congestion as feasible) and completely renewing all of
the tired infrastructure, which would result in a reduced maintenance
requirement for years to come. The idea would be to bring the
infrastructure up to the superb standard of, say, the Hamburg system. New
track, new signals, new cabling, the lot.

A bit of short term pain for a *lot* of long-term gain, both financial and
in terms of fewer blockades.

Heard the shot term gain before, now the section that was closed needs
replacing.

Neil