What's the SG.org consensus on this? Good thing/bad thing? Swift routes in to the City and beyond by 2015 (no messing around at Kings X). I would have thought this will introduce more 'commuting suits' to the area, like Kentish Town, and therefore more money in to the area - and perhaps those dreaded chains.
[Thameslink in 2015](
http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk/cms/pages/view/30)
Personally I think it will be great news.
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What the rule about working for Boris Johnson?
As it stands trains are so rare on the Barking to Gospel Oak line that it's hardly worth considdering. But with the changes it could well beomce a more useful way of bringing people from Haringey and Hackney in to shop and eat on SGR.
This is, of course, unless BoJo cans the whole scheme, which is what he has just done with the scheme for step free access at Finsbury Park station.
<a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/5792.aspx">http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/5792.aspx</a>
<a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/finsbury-park-brochure.pdf">http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/finsbury-park-brochure.pdf</a>
<a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/tfl-investment-programme-london-underground.pdf">http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/tfl-investment-programme-london-underground.pdf</a>
PS Is edit comments working? It takes me to starting a discussion.
these are train lines that already exist, so is it just a question of joining a couple of them together and painting "thameslink" on the side of the trains? sounds dangerously revolutionary to me if so.