Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 23:15:42 on Sun, 8 Feb
2015, D A Stocks remarked:
"Roland Perry" wrote in message ...
In message , at
19:55:19 on Sat, 7 Feb 2015, remarked:
Aldwych is near enough to Covent Garden to be redundant.
The nearest station to Aldwych is Temple.
But Temple doesn't substitute for Aldwych as far as passengers using
the Piccadilly Line are concerned.
However, there will be a fair number of passengers for whom using
Temple and avoiding the central section of the Picadilly Line
altogether is definitely an option; e.g. Thameslink commuters can
change at Blackfriars rather than St Pancras and from 2018 their
Great Northern brethren will be able to join them.
Quicker to take the Piccadilly to Holborn and walk.
Similarly from West London it's an easy change onto the District line
and probably just as fast.
They wouldn't have doubled-back at Holborn anyway. Covent Garden and walk.
Actually, if I'm going to Somerset House, I'm more likely to use Temple
than Covent Garden. That's partly to avoid the hordes of tourists in Covent
Garden, and partly because it's a simpler route. I'm not sure which is
technically shorter, but there's not much in it. Even if Aldwych was still
open, walking from Temple or Covent Garden would be much quicker because of
the sparse shuttle service.