On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:59:12 -0000, "Martin Underwood" a@b wrote:

Phil Richards wrote in message
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Any idea who is responsible for the upkeep of this? Network Rail or
Lambeth Council?

Is this walkway fully open again? At one time (until maybe ten years ago)
you could walk at high level all the way from the Eurostar end of Waterloo
right to Charing Cross, with just a dip under the tracks out of Charing
Cross. Then they closed the section from the far side of Waterloo Road
through the Shell Building and under the railway tracks: you had to come
down to ground level at Waterloo Road, walk along past the arches of the
viaduct and then climb back up a concrete spiral staircase near the Nelson
Mandela statue.

It's not, unfortunately, as other posters have said.

I walk almost everyday from Waterloo across the Golden Jubilee bridges
to Trafalgar Square and on to Piccadilly and one thing that is clear
is how appalling the route from the station to the South Bank is for
pedestrians. You have to avoid cars & taxis immediately after coming
out of the station, then Waterloo Road has a nasty bend in it to the
right that you can't see round, with a pedestrian refuge in the middle
that is far too small to take a trainload of people (there's one near
Victoria that's similar, I think it's at the end of Victoria Street).
Then you have to cross Belvedere Road. Given that walking reduces
obesity, emissions and congestion, surely more attention should be
paid to facilities for pedestrians? The only good thing about my
route to work is that they do seem to have improved the traffic light
sequence around Trafalgar Square.