On Nov 1, 5:29*pm, "
wrote:
What's the deal with plans to re-open York Road?

The consensus that I've seen in threads on u.t.l. and elsewhere is
that despite the opportunities for interchange with the NLL, the York
Road area is still too industrial and too lightly occupied to justify
the reconstruction of the station.

One pet project of mine is to expand the station to allow for
terminating services, with two new station tunnels on the outside for
through trains and the existing station tunnels used for terminating
services, with the existing crossover tunnel expanded to house a
scissors crossover and the old running lines converted into sidings.
It would be fantastically expensive, but it would solve once and for
all the chronic reliability and reversing problems experienced on the
Piccadilly Line west of King's Cross and also allow a more realistic
off-peak service to operate on the Picc north of King's Cross.

Failing that, reopening the station as-is would still be expensive,
but less so because the lift shafts descend all the way to platform
level, allowing for step-free access using the existing shafts.