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Originally Posted by Stuart
It's something I'd like to see, but I doubt it's a viable option without someone spending a *lot* more upgrading the public transport networks to cope with the extra demand. These upgrades would also like take many decades. To give an idea of the time scale. I live near a relatively small, but busy national rail train line. One which has been earmarked by National Rail, TFL and the Mayor as being a line they want converted to the underground to reduce the strain on Lewisham station (which is a massive choke point for the South Eastern rail network). Even though the project to convert this line to an extension of the Bakerloo line has the support of all those authorities, we've been told it's unlikely to be completed before 2040.
This is apparently considered to be a cheap way to increase capacity, only costing £3bn.
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The bullet has to be bitten. A super highway will not be cheap either and it will become clogged up just like every other road 'improvement' does.
Our young people already have some pretty crummy legacies from this generation; this is something we could get right for them.
It's radical change but imho it is unavoidable. Otherwise we'll have paved the UK and put up a parking lot (apologies to Joni Mitchell
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London, or a substantial part of it, could be a beautiful City without all that traffic. The Underground artery is there - all it needs is developing. Political clout is needed to speed it up.