I get very wound up when I look at the way London wastes money that is sorely needed to improve its infrastructure. Partiucularly the new Shepherd's Bush Central Line station. I don't know exactly how much this cost but it was just a rebuild - not even a new station - to relieve some congestion. The station footprint did not have to be so gargantuan. Why the overblown enormous empty glass box? A simple hole in the ground would have sufficed, to free up valuable central London real estate at the surface. So a waste of money and of space. The station does not even have underground interchange with the Overground station next door. London wastes money on unnecessary things, whilst leaving vast swathes of London without service, poor service, and overinflated (!) fares. Rather like the JLE - similarly a huge waste on monumental architecture, rather than providing services elsewhere. Why - in a city that never stops pleading poverty? Rant over...
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