On 2 Nov, 03:10, TheOneKEA wrote:
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.

There was a very thorough feasibility study and business case produced
in 2005:
http://www.kingscrossenvironment.com...road-tube.html

It came to the conclusion that it would be cheap-ish (£40m all in) and
produce a large benefit for users of York Road but an almost equally
large disbenefit for passengers passing through, for a negligibly
small benefit overall. They also did some passenger behaviour
modelling and came to the conclusion that congestion at KXSP for
actually increase slightly, due to half the York Road passengers
interchanging there (which apparently produces more congestion than
them walking/busing to the Northern Ticket Hall), which wipes out even
the tiny benefit, for a spectacularly small BCR of 0.03.

(If it weren't for those two negatives, it'd have a BCR of about 14 by
my calculations)

U