| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:CrossRail and Station Access | |
| Posted by: | Chris Veasey | |
| Date/Time: | 24/09/09 12:01:00 |
| "To avoid devastating the whole area, you'd have to put the combined Euston/Paddington replacement station underground. Then you'd need new tube lines to cope with all the extra people arriving at KXSP." - If that was really so - and I'd like to see it proved - then it further points up the undeniable fact that London is far too big, too concentrated, has far too big a share of the country's transport failities and other goodies, and far too many people for its own let alone the rest of the country's good. My comment re proper access to Eurostar for the rest of the country represented a compromise on what I really advocate - and what the rest of the country should have - ie a high-speed rail link to the Eurostar line in kant, bypassing London altogether to the north and east. Yes, costly but no less than the rest of the country deserves and is entitled to, and well worth scrapping the likes of Xrail which will just compound current problems and cause far maior problems than it will solve. As the House of Commons Transport Committee pronounced unequivocally in its report on Regional Eurostar a few years back: "The regions have been cheated". |