Firstly I would say that the commuting thing has been explained in a previous post on this thread. Secondly the point of the station is to provide Inter City connectivity to Worcestershire (also covered in this thread) and finally the London stuff to do with Warwick Parkway has no relevance to this.
You may think you have "explained the commuting thing". That's your opinion. But if i was in Worcester and there was the option of driving to a nice parkway without having to battle through the city's less than fab roads - which I am sadly familiar with, thanks - to get to Shrub Hill, or be dropped off at Foregate Street, then what do you think I would do?
If it's supposed to improve intercity connectivity, how do you explain last year's version of the plan - one platform on the Cotswold Line, served by trains that already call in Worcester anyway? And XC has shown no enthusiasm whatever for this scheme, or maybe I missed the announcement? It's all very well to build the station but you also need space on the trains for people to get on and there sure as hell is not any space on many of the XC trains running past Norton right now and no prospect of extra capacity on XC for some years yet.
As for "Warwick Parkway has no relevance", people constantly claim lots of people from the Worcester area heading to London drive to Warwick because of the 'poor' service on the Cotswold Line/lack of parking at Shrub Hill, etc, etc. If there is improved intercity connectivity, but these people don't instead use this station near their homes, what on earth is the point of it?
Also, we have been covering how to deter Worcester commuters from using the XC services just to get to Birmingham, however nobody seems to have commented on my suggestion, hence I still have no idea if it is credible as a solution.
Well go to Leamington Spa in the morning peak and see how good the current Chiltern and LM services are at deterring Birmingham commuters from cramming on to already-full XC trains - they're not.
You might be quite surprised how many people commute from Worcester to Cheltenham and Gloucester!
By road, no. By train, yes, given there isn't a service in either direction between 7am and 9am. And even when LM extended some trains to Gloucestershire, there was still that gap, as LM's stock was all going into Birmingham at that time of the day.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that long distance XC services should be fast, but they should also serve places as large and important as Worcester. I wonder if the solution would be to find (significant) time savings elsewhere on the route and allow the Voyagers to spread their legs a little.
Doesn't matter what speed they go at, they need to be able to accommodate the passengers that a Worcester Parkway would deliver and the fact of the matter is, as I'm sure you are aware, that Voyagers can't even fit in all the people who want to travel now, never mind add more from Worcester, whether long-distance or commuters to Birmingham - who, I repeat, will use this station if it gets built and has anything more than a token service on the Birmingham-Cheltenham line.