12
May
11

YES!

More details here.

I am fully signed up and supportive of this project. For a part of London so near to the centre, it is crazy how inaccessible this area is. If I had to find something critical to say, it would be that the route is not ambitious enough – could it not head further West to join up with somewhere on the District line?

London needs all the new transport infrastructure it can get. If you have received a consultation pack vote YES! to the Northern Line Extension.

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9 Responses to “YES!”


  1. 12 May, 2011 at 5:16 am

    Yes, I agree and have filled in their consultation form to that effect.

    However, my main suggestion was that the line should connect—terminate?—at Clapham Junction so that this major hub could finally be on the Underground.

    DK

    • 12 May, 2011 at 8:18 am

      Good idea, although the cynic in me wonders whether Clapham Junction has been deliberately ruled out because the extra traffic might just kill the Northern Line…

  2. 3 Scrobs...
    12 May, 2011 at 5:41 am

    They used to say that the construction would be too expensive to build new stations south of the river, citing something to do with the load-bearing properties of the soft/wet ground.

    Presumably, with ‘globule wormin’g and the BBC, that’s now changed and the ground is in fact dry and concrete-like!

    Glad you’ll be able to get to the power station, when it lifts off! I went to (one of) the ‘inaugaral’ celebrations when Superman seemed to appear from somewhere or other, and made all the ladies go ‘ooooh’…

    • 12 May, 2011 at 8:20 am

      I thought the excuse was always that the density of overland rail lines meant that new tubes wouldn’t bring enough revenue. Is the clay really softer in Sarf London?

  3. 12 May, 2011 at 5:58 am

    “London needs all the new transport infrastructure it can get.”

    Agreed, though getting the existing stuff to work a little better ought to be a higher priority…

  4. 12 May, 2011 at 8:10 am

    Arrrr, we can’t be affording vanity projects like this, what with the gurrerment deffysit an’ all that.

    • 12 May, 2011 at 8:21 am

      Don’t tell Mark Wadsworth, but this line and Crossrail are being funded by a land value tax. The real money won’t be spent until long after the deficit has been closed anyway, I wouldn’t have thought.

  5. 12 May, 2011 at 5:22 pm

    I can’t remember the lines now, but why not connect to Battersea Park. isn’t that just a stop away?

  6. 9 Rachel
    12 May, 2011 at 6:24 pm

    oh yeah OK I’ll give it to you.

    Signed,

    A Northern Londoner.


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