wrote:
On 5 Dec, 22:49, TimB wrote:
On Dec 5, 3:11 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Mwmbwls wrote:
Having not been to London since it opened.
Crumbs. That was quite a while ago, you know. Been busy, have you?
Oh, since *Westfield* opened. Gotcha. Nevermind.


I was there on the Sunday after it opened, and in the evening there
was one train an hour, there must have been 250 people on the
southbound side. The 313 was as busy as you have ever seen one. On the
northbound there were a lot of people, all of us wondering how a new
station could be built with no canopies whatsoever, its a horrible
windy and miserable place

Indeed. If this is the future of retail then it's a future in a very
different climate.

http://flickr.com/photos/nuttyxander...7608819610397/

Though it would appear that on the southbound platform there is a hidden
shelter.

http://flickr.com/photos/nuttyxander...7608819610397/

It's not a good sign that the central line station had to be closed on
the opening Saturday due to overcrowding, it would appear that whilst
the upper levels of the station are well designed for coping with the
crowds, having only two escalators and having all access to the
platforms via what is essentially access at one end of an island is not
enabling high throughput.

Would it have been possible to move the whole station further into the
shopping centre boundary and rebuild it totally, or are the curves a
problem that negates such useful planning?