On Jan 26, 7:57*pm, Paul Oter wrote:
On 26 Jan, 14:16, Mizter T wrote:





On 26 Jan, 13:39, Paul Oter wrote:

On 26 Jan, 09:54, Allan wrote:

John Salmon wrote:
Surprisingly, I don't think this has been posted here yet...

Posters displayed at King's Cross indicate that the entrance to the
Underground from within the main line station concourse - the one more
or less opposite platform 7 - which seems to have been there for ever,
at least within my recollection, is to close permanently from next
Sunday, 1st February.

I may be missing something, but this is a great pity. *It was so easy to
get off an arriving train, and straight down the stairs into the
underground.

.. though you haven't been able to do that in the morning peak (7am to
10am Mon-Fri) for many months now, since the entrance/exit in question
is closed during those hours.

I wonder why this is the case - because it's easier to handle the
crowds outside at the new entrance perhaps?

Fom 1 Feb, you have through the often crowded station concourse, out of
the front of the station, merge in with everyone else coming into the
station, and then down the stairs.

Yes, I have had to do that every mornng for ages. Worse, the entrance
in front of the station is always "throttled" during the morning peak
(by partially closing the sliding gates) to allow only one person in
at a time, leading to a big melee of people outside trying to get in.

I dare say this happens with good reason, that being the crowdedness
of the ticket hall. The new northern ticket hall should abate this
somewhat.

Yes, it's to prevent overcrowding in the station. As you say, it's
better to create a crowd outside in the street than inside the
mainline station (except when it's raining...).

PaulO-

But that's how it is NOW, with the concourse entrance still there. I
was under the impression that people weren't even allowed to use the
pavement entrance at certain times.

So how is it expected to cope? Mystified.

A bit like if they closed some more passages at Bank and then
announced that it was now a usable interchange.