On 29 May, 14:49, MIG wrote:
On 29 May, 14:39, "Peter Masson" wrote:



"lonelytraveller" wrote

they managed to produce the victoria line pretty cheaply. I don't see
why its such a struggle to produce another line cheaply.

Too much on the cheap. Kings Cross was left as a fire trap. Several
stations, notably Victoria, Oxford Circus and Kings Cross were too small for
the number of passengers using them, and are having to be expensively
enlarged. Brixton needs three platforms to turn back the whole service, but
only has two. While there is good cross-platform interchange at Stockwell,
Oxford Circus, Euston, Highbury & Islington and Finsbury Park, interchange
at other stations, particularly Vauxhall and Green Park is as bad as it is
possible to make it.

Peter

And Warren Street.

But before being too critical, the interchanges are still a helluva
lot better on average than the Jubilee managed. *Apart from Baker
Street (the original Jubilee, using a Bakerloo platform), they are all
terrible.

The inclusion of a lift that can carry one or two disabled people
seems to be an excuse for sending thousands of everyone else all
around and up and down at all new interchanges.

To be fair, they wanted to build the Waterloo platforms near the
Northern Line ones, but that involved putting them on a slight curve
(so that the line didn't have to turn sharply to reach Southwark). And
Health & Safety laws, in their infinite wisdom, regard that as
illegal. Just like its down to them for forcing the new Park Royal
platforms to avoid being close to the ones on the other line that
crosses it - the line has a slight slope where the crossing is.