"Mait001" wrote in message
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I was going to start a thread on the subject of Terminal 4 closure
but since
this tjhread already exists, I hope I may be permitted to offer the
following
opinion.

I have just read the TFL leaflet "Heathrow by Tue" which deals with
the
closure, between January 2005 and September 2006. The most startling
sentence
is "There are 33 stairs at Hatton Cross Station".

Those 8 words are enough to ensure that nobody with any luggage (and
a fair
number of the rest of us, including the aged, disabled, those with
children
etc.) is going to use the Mickey Mouse make-do-and mend
"replacement" bus
service.


33 steps isn't that far, though, probably no worse than any stairs
they may have had to use at the station they boarded the train from.
And, as you point out later on, for people with heavy luggage, there
will be people to assist.
What you did not mention, is the option for passengers to stay on the
train to T1,2,3 station and then get Heathrow Express on to terminal
4, without any steps to traverse.


The irony is that all this disruption is being caused by the alleged
lack of
capacity at Heathrow, hence the building of Terminal 5. Do the twits
responsible for this debacle really not give a fig for the massive
inconvenience being caused to millions of passengers whilst the
closure
operates?


I'm sure they do understand, hence the replacement bus service, and
the publicity of the works. Since Terminal 5 is happening, how would
you propose extending the Picadilly line to that terminal without an
enforced closure of parts of the line. Or would you rather the
Terminal 5 passengers (when complete) are inconvenienced by poor rail
links when it opens, just so people wanting Terminal 4 aren't
inconvenienced now.

What would you propose to do ?