On 4 Dec, 11:49, wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 10:33:20 +0000

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:56:17 on Tue, 4 Dec
2012, remarked:
You could close Covent Garden if walking 200m (from Leicester Square)
isn't an issue.

I suspect if it wasn't for the huge volume of crowds travelling into that
part of town they probably would have long ago. Those lifts can't be cheap
to maintain.

There are plenty of stations with much less passenger traffic where they
keep the lifts going. Goodge St, for example. It's close enough to both
Warren St and TCR that it's a bit of a luxury.

Its a pity the tube doesn't have local and express lines like the new york
subway. I know the met sort of has them but its not really the same thing
since its way out of the centre.

This is something that could have been considered for Crossrail.
Crossrail could have had more stations, with express trains skipping
the "local" stations.

Of course costs would have risen exponentially.