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Old November 6th 07, 05:43 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is offline
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Default "Queen to open St Pancras station" today

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Paul Scott wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7080278.stm

The other is that the surrounding roads are now open as of Saturday
3rd November (so the sign said). As far as I could see (but I may have
got it wrong) Pancras Road is fully open for two-way traffic all the
way from Euston Road up to the Goods Way / Camley Street junction, and
Midland Road is open for one-way southbound traffic into Euston Road.
The taxi rank is now on Midland Road, and that's now the taxi drop-off
point as well (as opposed to the old location on Pancras Road).


The southbound route from Goods Way


(along Pancras Road)

is a taxi (and goods vehicle) only route


And pushbike! How about buses? Until recently, they were going that way
too, but now i think about it, i don't recall seeing any yesterday or this
morning on my way to work.

for the Kings Cross rank which is now on the west of that station (the
internal rank alongside KX platform 1 has been closed for a while. I
took a walk up there last Saturday, and its remarkable how many car
drivers didn't understand the signage, and found themselves in a queue
of taxis , with a double white line on their offside!


Well, car drivers are a dozy lot, so who can blame them.

The key to understanding it is that Pancras and Midland roads, along with
the eastbound lane of Euston Road, now form a wrong-way-round gyratory
encircling St Pancras station.

tom

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