"Martin Underwood" wrote in message
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The ideal solution would be escalators. I presume the
fact that the lifts have survived so long is an indication
that the site isn't suited to the extra horizontal space
required for escalators

Covent Garden was so quiet in the 1930s that it was considered for closure
at the same time as York Road and Brompton Road. It only became busy since
the 1970s or 1980s, by which time there had been no lift-escalator
conversions on the Underground for decades. The only subsequent
escalator-lift conversions have been part of bigger projects, such as
getting rid of the narrow platform at Angel, which is one of the stations
with the highest proportion of blind users.

and that conversion would be seriously costly
in terms of the building/tunnelling work involved.

Yes, I think money is the issue rather than any unique properties of this
site.


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