On 2018\03\01 15:30, Clive Page wrote:
Yesterday I took one of the public tours of the Crossrail station at
Canary Wharf which was somewhat interesting.Â* Many of the escalators and
lifts were working and they were starting fit out the platforms and to
run test trains through, apparently.Â* The appearance wasn't all that
different from many of the Jubilee Line stations except for the use of
yellow, "canary yellow" they said, to customise parts of this station.
What colours they would use for the other stations wasn't divulged.

What I had not realised was that there is to be no easy interchange with
the Jubilee Line.Â* When I asked a question about this the project
manager person said that they didn't see Canary Wharf as an interchange
station, but as a destination in its own right, the implication being
that they really didn't want the public changing trains there.

It seems to me that people coming from that branch of Crossrail such as
Woolwich and wanting to get to say London Bridge or Waterloo might well
want to change lines there.

Woolwich Arsenal has direct trains to London Bridge and, I think,
Waterloo. It's hard to find a major (or even minor) traffic flow that
benefits from an Elizabeth Jubilee (how creepy is it to put those words
together) interchange at Canary Wharf.

These escalators aren't pedal-powered, are they? I don't find going up
and down lengthy escalators to be the sort of annoyance that going up
and down half a dozen steps is.

I'm more bothered by the fact that the Shenfield branch of Crossrail
manages to run along under the LTS for half a mile with neither line
stopping there, so the LTS somehow manages to run over both branches
without any interchange. I'm sure journeys from south Essex to the West
End would be a massive flow if facilitated.