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Old July 9th 10, 06:24 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Paddington barriers again

On 8 July, 23:24, Neil Williams
wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 06:31:45 -0700 (PDT), Andy
wrote:

The exit is to the north east, from the top of platforms 8 and 9,
where the bridge takes a bend between spans 3 and 4, the exit goes
straight on(ish). It comes out by the canal and ultimately leads to
Bishop's Bridge Road. It is one of the reasons that there has to be a
barrier on the bridge, if barriers are used, as the pathway is
currently rather narrow.


Ah, I looked and saw it today. *Must have disregarded it last time as
it looks like a bit of a building site entrance!


There is something circular about this. Because of overcrowding,
there has to be an extra exit, but because of the extra exit, there
has to be a barrier that creates overcrowding.

(Or was there always an exit that way? I can only remember going
through the main station, but maybe I never needed to go the other
way.)