On Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:30:32 UTC, Clive Page wrote:
Yesterday I took one of the public tours of the Crossrail station at Canary Wharf which was somewhat interesting.

What I had not realised was that there is to be no easy interchange with the Jubilee Line. When I asked a question about this the project manager person said that they didn't see Canary Wharf as an interchange station, but as a destination in its own right, the implication being that they really didn't want the public changing trains there.

It seems to me that people coming from that branch of Crossrail such as Woolwich and wanting to get to say London Bridge or Waterloo might well want to change lines there. You will be able to do this under cover, but the connection will involve two sets of ticket barriers and being forced to use lots of escalators to go up to the surface and down again, and also pass a host of shops on the way. The latter are, presumably, the main justification for the feature. It's sad that at so many new stations passenger convenience is being sacrificed to the interests of the owners of these retail opportunities, just as in the Thameslink station at St.Pancras.

As to the absence of a station serving London City Airport, well that has always seemed barmy to me.

To be fair the Crossrail station only arrived after an enormous amount of other development had taken place. Said development makes a paid side interchange tunnel impractical. However I walked almost entirely undercover from the Jubilee Line station to the entrance to the Crossrail station. It involved one escalator from the Jub stn into the shopping complex under Canada Square and then a comfortable walk involving one right turn and one left turn. It took about 5-6 mins given I don't walk very fast and it was lunchtime so lots of people shopping / getting lunch. The only aspect I am not too sure about is what hours that undercover link is open. I agree the other route via the open air is not marvellous, not well sign posted and would have been horrible given the wind whipping off the Thames yesterday.

If the link via the shopping centre is available for most of the operating day then I don't see there is any great issue. It is little different from the undercover link from the Jub station to Heron Quays DLR. I assume TfL will specify an out of station interchange between all the stations in the vicinity of Canary Wharf once Crossrail opens which at least affords people a cost free interchange if they want to make it.

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Paul C
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