Sky Rider wrote:
Grrrr! Call me a pessimist, 'sometime this year' could technically mean
this Christmas. Not that it necessarily will be - but what on earth
seems to be taking them so long?

Perhaps they're waiting for work on the Met line platforms to be
finished. I use these every day and although the rate of change is
glacial (presumably they can only work at weekends) these are slowly
getting refurbished. For example, the wall opposite the eastbound
platform was completely replastered and repainted a couple of weekends
ago.

I would imagine that since the western ticket hall includes new
escalators down to the Met line platforms the refurbishment of the
platforms is considered part of the same project.

(Obviously, they'll have to wait until the new ticket hall is open
before they can remove the old ticket windows and refurbish the area
between them and the current exit.)

PaulO