Never Modern ? you say that it won?t take that much longer to travel to London Bridge via Canada Water on the ELL than travelling by ?overground? directly to LB.

How do you figure that out?

The overground journey from New Cross Gate to LB takes six minutes. The underground journey changing at Canada Water takes 12 minutes. This does not include the time taken to change to the Jubilee Line at CW? If that takes, say, 5 minutes, then the total journey by underground is 17 minutes as opposed to 6 minutes by overground.

We need to maintain ALL our existing services to London Bridge. It's where the vast majority of people travelling from this area want to go to. Using the ELL to travel to London Bridge via Canada Water is more time consuming and infinitely more unpleasant and crowded.