Mr Thant wrote:
On 6 Dec, 12:32, Alex Ingram wrote:
Indeed. If this is the future of retail then it's a future in a very
different climate.

http://flickr.com/photos/nuttyxander...72157608819610...

The glass building at the bottom of the stairs was designed (and
originally built) as a waiting room, with the entrance facing the
camera. That's why the steelwork on the left is so ugly, as it was put
in when the end wall was removed.

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?

I think wonga is the thing that negates it or anything like it. TfL
were meant to dig some passages underground to spread passengers along
the platform, but didn't want to pay for it.

It doesn't need "passages underground". It just needs some canopies over
the open platforms to keep the rain off. It beggars belief that a new urban
station has been built to the standards of a 19th century rural halt, with
no protection from the weather apart from the small area at the foot of the
stairs.
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Richard J.
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