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01:03:01 on Wed, 4 Nov 2009, John B remarked:
Time estimates are also
interesting. *Doesn't help me much, since the interchange I make most
frequently there is from the MML platforms to the Victoria, but hey.

That should still save you a minute or two - your route's now going to
be more or less the hypotenuse of a triangle (MML - Northern hall -
Vic) rather than two sides (MML - Western hall - Tube hall - Vic)

Even the official version is that it only saves one minute from the
Thameslink platforms

Partly because the platform access for the new route is much further
east than via the existing route.

And don't forget that if you are coming from the MML platforms (rather
than Thameslink) the escalator drops you off quite some way too far
south[1], and you have to make a u-turn and walk back north, to get to
the cross-passage with the farmers market. That will eat away into the
one minute advantage.

So-called improvement to that particular interchange was always one of
the most over-sold aspects of the re-design.

What might actually be quicker for that journey, is to exit St Pancras
via the Eurostar entrance, then head for the tube entrance that'll be on
the SW corner of Kings Cross station (not sure when that opens, as I
assume it will be after they've demolished the "temporary" extension at
the front) and down to the existing ticket hall. Of course, they can't
recommend that, as there isn't a "proper" pedestrian crossing outside
the Eurostar entrance, and you have to play chicken with the taxi rank.

[1] About where the "St" in "St Pancras" is on their diagram.
--
Roland Perry