In message of Sat, 5 Oct
2013 23:29:26 in uk.transport.london, Paul Corfield
writes
On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 18:19:34 +0100, eastender
wrote:

On 2013-10-05 14:27:00 +0000, Recliner said:

Stations with an interchange, such as Highbury & Islington in the
north-east and Canada Water in the south-east, became more
important. Each weekday around 60,000 people travel to and from Highbury &
Islington on Overground services.

Indeed Highbury is a busy place but unlike Canada Water it's an old
station that should have been modernised given the key interchange with
the Victoria Line. At present, the down escalator is out of service too.

To be fair a lot of money has been spent to free up space at ticket
hall level at Highbury and the circulation space is a vast improvement
on what went before. I agree the link to the Vic Line / FCC is now
inadequate but it will take a lot of money to add extra escalators,

I don't find signage brilliant either. It includes corridor T junctions
with signage absent until the turn is made. There is probably a lack of
height for clearer signage. OTOH, I think there has been some
improvement in platform displays towards Moorgate.

lifts and wider corridor links. With the proposal to add weekend and
evening services on the GN line into Moorgate in the new TSGN
franchise there will be even more pressure on this interchange.

What proposal? With Google, I managed to find TSGN = Thameslink Great
Northern, but nothing to amplify Paul's allusion. Searching for Moorgate
in a recent consultation document showed nothing relevant.

[At Moorgate, on weekdays until about 2200, signs "Trains to Stevenage"
give access to the Northern Line Ticket Hall from Northern Line
platforms using 2 escalators, rather than 20 steps and an escalator.]


Canada Water is hardly an exemplar of capacity either. Ticket hall to
street is all stairs (ignoring the MIP lift) when escalators are
really needed. The escalator capacity on the Overground / Jubilee

When have you found the stairs inadequate? 35 is a bit long. http://www
..directenquiries.com/stationDiagram.aspx?tab=StationPlanRoute&did=0071-0
011693%2b0071-0025015_P2H&did1=0071-0011687_H2E&did2=0071-0011687_OUT&ci
d=0071-1506208&cid1=0071-1506191&cid2=0071-1506192&fid=0071-0025029&eo=&
xo=&lpid=4284&sr=Y&sh=Y&level=1&dir=r&companyid=74 237&company=Canada%20W
ater
I find it more irritating that drug abuse is given as a reason for
police requesting permanent closure of toilets in the bus station. OTOH,
I think RADAR key access to accessible toilets is still there.

interchange link is overwhelmed off peak - I dread to think how awful
it is in the peak with trains tipping people out every 3-4 minutes. At
some point that needs a radical rethink as it was scoped for the old
East London service and what's there now is a different thing
altogether.

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Walter Briscoe