Borough Market

I can't claim to fully understand the issues surrounding the redevelopment of Thameslink services, but everything I have been able to read on the subject convinces me that it is going to be bad news if it does involve ripping out substantial numbers of buildings in and around Borough Market. Sample news story here: http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/2390 An online petition has been established to try to halt a proposal which, if effected, would lead to the destruction of listed buildings within the market and, quite possibly siginificant, possibly permanent, disruption to the market itself: http://www.sabmac.co.uk Given that Borough is now ranked amongst the top two or three attractions in London by a number of travel guides, it seems crackers to destroy what is one of the most successful parts of the fabric of the city. Part of the charm of Borough is that it is beneath the railway tracks and that it's a densely-developed, noisy and bustling place, but messing with the existing ecology of it in the name of redeveloping commuter rail services just seems stupid. I need to become better informed on this issue, but it does seem like this is a classic case of the empty valorisation of the new in a way that ignores the real value of the old.