In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
14:17:52 on Mon, 11 Jan 2010, remarked:
I must get someone to show me this supposed step-free route to the
Piccadilly Line at King's Cross.

Northern ticket hall, lift down to new passageways; short lift down
to platforms. (The only access that's not finished yet is the lift
down from the old concourse to the Northern Line platforms)

The current access to the Northern ticket hall from King's Cross main
line is not step-free.

There are five that I can think of (are you saying some are out of
action temporarily). Working around the complex clockwise:

There's a lift just inside the St Pancras extension that goes up to
the Kent platforms and down to the passageway to the NTH. There's
another lift by the stairs which come out near the KX Suburban
platforms. The third lift is by the stairs that give access to the
KX mainlaine concourse near the large departure board, and the
fourth is out by the main road and leads down to the old concourse,
which is then a level passageway all the way to the NTH. The fifth
lift is inside the western ticket hall and gives access from road
level to the barrier level, which connected by a level passage to
the old KX tube concourse.

All but the first mentioned are on this diagram I did a year ago,
from various plans, before it all opened ...

http://www.perry.co.uk/images/kx-com...with-lifts.jpg

(the numbers refer to the kind of lift, not an ordering that they
are currently using on the signage - which doesn't include my first
lift because it appears to be regarded as a St Pancras mainline
lift not a tube station lift):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blech/4147448998/

The only lift from ground level only goes relevantly to the old tube
concourse which does not have step-free access to the Piccadilly Line.

That's the fourth one in my list above, top half of lift "D".

You seem to be assuming that the lifts are all completed. I'm only talking
about access from King's Cross concourse which is not yet completed. I
can't see any access to the Northern ticket hall from King's Cross which
is presently open that is not down steps, apart from the old lift by the
front of the station. I don't regard as travel via St Pancras as a
credible route. The lift at the front of King's Cross would be a squeeze
with a bike, by the way. But I carry my bike up and down stairs. I'd just
rather not do so at a station like Edgware Road where the signage is so
crap you can't be sure which platform you need.

--
Colin Rosenstiel