On 2013-10-05 22:29:26 +0000, Paul Corfield said:

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,
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.

Yes, opening up the fron of the station is good but as you say it's the
interchange that's the problem - on Friday I was trying to get down to
the Vic amid two train loads arriving at the same time on the
Overground.

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
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.

I've not been to the surface at Canda Water - is there anything up
there? But the station does seem a lot more spacious. The problem there
is the erratic Jubilee line in my experience.

E.