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    TRT wrote:
    The level of hostility that some people display about this topic is staggering. @Nascot - Jealous are we? @ljmelville - Rather than hurl insults, read the article. No-one is proposing to not build the CRL, but this is an appeal to TfL not to be "thick and short-sighted" by cutting a well-used passenger service. @Crazyfrog - the CRL on the route map will make a clearer distinction between trains that run to the Met and the Junction. Your argument about people finding they are not in Watford when they emerge from the Met suggests that the line is used by first-time visitors to the town. If they emerge from the Junction, then they'll find they are not in the centre of town, but half-a-mile away at the end of a road full of office buildings!
    The Watford Met is only a well-used passenger service because there is no alternative station for Watford at the moment,I think this is going to be a case like has been mentioned to wait and see the footfall figures on the station when the CRL becomes into being, if not enough people use it, i cant see TFL justifying the expense of running the station and sending Trains there and as been mentioned the CRL will take passengers to either Watford High Street or Watford junction both main parts of watford with more travel interchange opportunites i.e buses,Rail and taxis other than a single Mini-cab rank outside watford met which is situated in the middle of a suburban housing estate"
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Hundreds have their say on future of Watford Met station

5:06pm Wednesday 18th April 2012 in News Photograph of the Author By Mike Wright , Chief Reporter

Watford Met station. Watford Met station.

A listening exercise over the future closure of Watford Metropolitan Station has prompted around 200 responses from the public.

Representations from members of the public over the station's future were handed into London Transport Users Committee, following the close of the consultation on Friday.

The body, which is the capital’s travel watchdog, will now compile a report for the Mayor of London, who has the final say on the station’s fate. A decision is due to be made before September 1.

The station, in Cassiobury Park Avenue, could close as part of the Croxley Rail Link project, which will redirect the line from Croxley station to two new stations on Ascot Road and near Watford General Hospital then on to Watford High Street station before terminating at Watford Junction.

The project is still at an early stage but is hoped to be completed and running by 2016.

While the reaction to the scheme, and the potential economic benefits it will bring to Watford, have been overwhelmingly positive, a campaign is now underway to try to maintain a passenger service to Watford Met. Under the current proposals the station would remain open but would only be used for train storage.

Over half of the representations delivered to the London Transport Users Committee’s offices last week were collected by two Watford borough councillors for the Cassiobury area, George Derbyshire and Peter Jeffree. The Liberal Democrat pair also handed the committee three proposals for keeping the station open to passengers.

The first proposal is to keep the station open as the terminal stop for one in three trains coming to Watford via the Metropolitan Line.

The second is for a simple shuttle service between Watford Met and either Croxley or Rickmansworth stations.

The last of the proposals is for a more ambitious new service between Watford Met and Amersham, which the councillors have dubbed the North Curve.

The pair have argued this new service would open up the benefits of the Croxley Rail Link directly to other people in south west Hertfordshire and beyond.

Following the meeting at London Transport Users Committee’s offices last week, Councillor George Derbyshire said: "It is encouraging that our campaign has forced a public hearing.

"Peter Jeffree and I will be making strong arguments at the public hearing for the retention of the station and passenger service based on the options we have put forward.”

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