I live in East London, but have been having to go to Hammersmith in the west recently for work in a secondment (normally I work in the city).
I was thinking while on the H+C line that Crossrail is going to be ridiculously busy when it opens. Right now it is a horrible 1h10+ slog each way to do this journey. After Crossrail, it'll be more like 40m, which is tolerable. I would not take a job in west london if I had to do the current commute permenantly, but would if crossrail was open (probably).
This is also on top of all the demand that will come off the central line (and also there is a huge amount of unrealised demand I think on the central line - ie people that won't even consider a central line commute even if it is quicker time wise).
I really can see it being full to breaking point on day 1. Are there any studies or projections of how busy they think it will be?
I was thinking while on the H+C line that Crossrail is going to be ridiculously busy when it opens. Right now it is a horrible 1h10+ slog each way to do this journey. After Crossrail, it'll be more like 40m, which is tolerable. I would not take a job in west london if I had to do the current commute permenantly, but would if crossrail was open (probably).
This is also on top of all the demand that will come off the central line (and also there is a huge amount of unrealised demand I think on the central line - ie people that won't even consider a central line commute even if it is quicker time wise).
I really can see it being full to breaking point on day 1. Are there any studies or projections of how busy they think it will be?