"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in message
...
wrote:

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?

Kevin

On 8 Nov, 20:12, "Zen83237" wrote:
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in message

... wrote:

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?

Kevin

Not very often these days.

But anyway, it's not so much the Isle of Dogs as the Greenwich
Peninsula.

On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 08:12:23PM -0000, Zen83237 wrote:
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
wrote:
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?

Not really. 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.

--
David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist

More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than
by drinking alcohol. -- W C Fields

"David Cantrell" wrote in message
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On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 08:12:23PM -0000, Zen83237 wrote:
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
wrote:
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?

Not really. 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.

--
David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist

More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than
by drinking alcohol. -- W C Fields

errrr if you want to go from Isle of Dogs to London Bridge/Waterloo what is
wrong with the DLR to Bank. The poster specified connecting the Isle of Dogs
to south of the river. DLR to Greenwich full fills that. Unless you want to
go the Dome, lets call it what it is, who goes to North Greenwich.

Zen83237 wrote:

Unless you want to go the Dome, lets call it what it is, who goes to North
Greenwich.

At least one courier firm has its depot on the pennisula, on the road
leading to the Blackwall tunnel. I've had to trek down there to collect
packages because the useless sods couldn't deliver properly.

Zen83237 wrote:

Unless you want to go the Dome, lets call it what it is, who
goes to North Greenwich.

It's one of the most heavily used stations on the tube.

--
We are the Strasbourg. Referendum is futile.

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:12:07 +0000, Basil Jet wrote:

Zen83237 wrote:

Unless you want to go the Dome, lets call it what it is, who goes to
North Greenwich.

It's one of the most heavily used stations on the tube.

Yup. Loads and loads of buses go from there to outside the tube station
to Woolwich, Blackheath, Charlton, Plumstead....I regularly get the tube
from Canary Wharf to Stratford, and the tube empties substantially at
North Greenwich, regardless of events at the O2....

On Feb 13, 9:04*am, Martin Petrov
wrote:

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:12:07 +0000, Basil Jet wrote:

Zen83237 wrote:
Unless you want to go the Dome, lets call it what it is, who goes to
North Greenwich.

It's one of the most heavily used stations on the tube.

Yup. Loads and loads of buses go from there to outside the tube station
to Woolwich, Blackheath, Charlton, Plumstead....I regularly get the tube
from Canary Wharf to Stratford, and the tube empties substantially at
North Greenwich, regardless of events at the O2....

Agreed. It's a very significant bus hub. The total number of entries
and exits for North Greenwich in 2008 was 17.76 million.

See the LU customer metrics mini-site he
http://tinyurl.com/LU-customer-metrics

I wonder whether there'll be a bit of a shift towards people using
Southeastern's "Metro" mainline services in those parts of SE London
now than Oyster PAYG is accepted.

Also, off on a tangent, North Greenwich station should really have
been named Greenwich Peninsula!

Mizter T wrote:

Also, off on a tangent, North Greenwich station should really have
been named Greenwich Peninsula!

"DOME" would look better on a roundel.

--
We are the Strasbourg. Referendum is futile.

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 - it also goes to Charing Cross, unlike the Jubilee.
--
Paul Terry