In message , at 21:08:54 on
Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Paul Corfield remarked:

Well done for being more cynical than me and that takes some doing!

There is plenty of practical pressure from commuters, older people,
parents with young kids and those in wheelchairs who would like to use
the rail network with less hassle than they currently encounter. I
have yet to see lifts or ramps anywhere on LU, Overground or DLR
rotting away through underuse. Usually there are queues of people
waiting to use the facilities!

Getting back to the original question, they do need adequate signage.

Every time I go to KX/StP (tube) I end up helping direct someone who
finds the Byzantine system of lifts and corridors there too much to cope
with. Plot a stepless route from the Circle to the Victoria Line...

And if the money is there, people will apply for it. Keeps the people
applying, and issuing, the money in a job.

So the Roland Perry solution is what exactly?

It's really difficult. Over the past decade the competition for funding
in the charitable sector has spiralled out of control, to the extent
that many charities have as their prime driving force "getting money
in". Of course they can't survive without funds, but it has often come
to obscure the 'good cause' they were originally set up for.

The same effect has permeated large parts of the public sector.

I'm making an assumption that you are reasonably fit and able bodied.

You must have missed the posting I used to make about 'getting across
London stepless'. That was a result of back problems (now OK fingers
crossed) and lugging 50Kg of airline baggage.

Maybe one day you won't be and then you may view these facilities as
something beneficial.

I do,
--
Roland Perry