On 9 Sep, 14:00, wrote:
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:46:57 +0100

"Paul Scott" wrote:
250m long? That'll produce some interesting bunching of passengers down
one end. I doubt many people will spend 3 minutes walking down the length
of the platform.

Why should it? The central underground stations are double ended, (eg
Farringdon/Barbican, *Moorgate/Liverpool St) with access to the platforms

Unless the entrances are spaced a reasonable distance apart then passengers
are going to have to walk those 250 metres at some point , whether its on
the platform or in a connecting tunnel.


But all the stations will have two entrances at street level. For
central London at least one of these will be an existing Underground
station with the other usually at a new site, but a couple will be
another Underground site. The distance that passengers will walk may
be considerably less than currently; consider a passenger at the rear
of a 12 car set at Liverpool Street at the moment (a 12 car class 321
formation is ~240m), they will have no choice but to walk considerably
more than 250m to get anywhere near the Underground to continue their
journey.