Jabird:
I'm afraid one of our biggest flaws in the UK is that we just don't do joined up thinking very well - but I'm afraid the US doesn't either, DEN is the largest airport site in the western world, but despite the huge dislocation moving out to that site caused, where is the TGV there? You'll get a tram in 2015.
Whilst I agree with you, I don't think we should look to the Yanks for advice here. One look at almost any American town or city will tell you that the Yanks don't do (can't do?) town planning.
America is a Capitalist free-for all where nothing is planned, and it simply does not work. The USSR was Socialist control-freakery, and that did not work either. Somewhere in the middle will do just fine.
Jabird:
Why hasn't Euston Square been linked before? TfL beancounters will have said 'costs too much, people who want to go there will get there anyway, so there's no revenue gain'.
And therein lies the Capitalist-Socialist conundrum. The Socialists often do nothing, because there is no personal loss to them if they sit on their backsides and do nothing all day. While the Capitalists will only get out of bed to design a project when there is a buck to be made. And the needs of the people in many cases can go to hell.
Jabird:
Given my magic want, I'd get rid of the British Library and put Euston 2.0 there. That would also grant me permanent favour with King Charles forever - but it won't happen.
The British Library? Oh, you mean that Sainsburys Grocerystore in-between Euston and King's Cross? Is that what it is? Hell, yes, smash that monstrosity down tomorrow (and produce something more neo-classical). And if you had a thinking cap, you might even envisage a station below, and the new neo-classical library on top (with suitable fire-proofing in between). (If 'new neo' is not a tautology...)
But whatever the decision:
you cannot have two TGV termini serving the same TGV line!! That would be like placing the new international aviation hub on Silver-Boris Island, and placing the new commuter-aircraft hub at Manston (with a travellator between the two).
No, no, I did not say that (I should not give these numbskulls any bright ideas).
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