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On May 10, 11:59 am, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:38:27 on
Sat, 10 May 2008, Paul Corfield remarked:

Kings Cross tube station also appears to impersonate "hell on earth" on
a fairly regular basis - despite all the improvement works. I just hope
the remaining work does something to take some of the pressure off.

It's a farce. Has so much disruption ever before produced so little
improvement?

Probably because the disruption is creating capacity for which demand
already exists. I wouldn't be the least bit shocked if the entire
Underground/NR complex is just as busy after the LU northern ticket
hall, direct links from Midland Road LL and the KX western ticket hall/
piazza works are finished - it would prove that the improvements were
done about 5-10 years too late.

By 'Midland Road LL' do you mean the [currently unused] entrance at the east
end of the St Pancras domestic concourse - which will also add MML and the
Kent Domestic pax into the passageway to the Northern ticket hall?

I am unaware of any 'direct' connection from the low level platforms...

Paul

On 12 May, 20:56, "Paul Scott" wrote:
By 'Midland Road LL' do you mean the [currently unused] entrance at the east
end of the St Pancras domestic concourse - which will also add MML and the
Kent Domestic pax into the passageway to the Northern ticket hall?

Peter Hendy recently cited the Thameslink move as a major cause of
overcrowding because passengers who used to have a direct route to the
tube platforms are now using the same barriers and escalators. Giving
them a separate ticket hall ought to fix this, even if it's not a
direct route. It'll also more evenly distribute passengers along the
platforms (which can't come soon enough on the Northern Line).

U

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In message , at 20:56:34 on
Mon, 12 May 2008, Paul Scott remarked:
By 'Midland Road LL' do you mean the [currently unused] entrance at the east
end of the St Pancras domestic concourse - which will also add MML and the
Kent Domestic pax into the passageway to the Northern ticket hall?

It's not intended to be the exit for MML passengers - hence the way the
escalators from the MML platforms dump you too far south to be useful.

Someone posted a diagram with the flows on it a couple of months ago.
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Roland Perry