On 17 Nov, 15:30, Mr Thant
wrote:
On 17 Nov, 14:45, MIG wrote:

Secondly, I can't comprehend the reason for forcing people round in
circles once they get to the bottom of the staircase to the DLR
level. *I've missed trains more than once while going round the houses
here, and it doesn't seem to achieve anything. *In fact, it forces
everyone to join the platform at the end that the trains use, and
people clump there. *If they allowed direct access from the bottom of
the stairs, people would have to walk along the platform, because the
trains don't go that far down yet.

They tried that, and it definitely felt more dangerous coming to the
bottom of the stairs and suddenly finding yourself on an overcrowded
platform, with a big crowd between you and the train, and a dangerous
precipice on one side of that crowd.

But presumably no more than it ever did ...?* I can see that it could
be unnerving if people stopped at that end of the platform instead of
moving on to where the trains currently stop, but there's no point
(yet) in a crowd waiting at that end of the platform. They have to
move on.

And the track is actually barriered at the stairs end if I remember
rightly, which it certainly isn't at the point where people currently
have to join the platform*.

*or at any other station where stairs lead down to the platforms.