On Jan 26, 9:54*am, Allan wrote:

All this so a lift can be installed.

Yeah, those old people and people in wheel chairs: who cares?

There's an excellent reason to put a lift into central London if at
all possible: it opens up travel possibilities into central London for
wheelchair users from north London, as there's platform level access
at Woodside Park and West Finchley. It'd be nice if it were somewhere
with car parking, like Totteridge and Whetstone, but from memory
parking at Woodside Park would be practical with a disabled pass.

Currently there are few such opportunities. The only other central
access from the north is the Jubilee Line at Westminster and Waterloo,
and then at Stanmore, Wembley Park and Kilburn, but that presumes
you're headed for Westminster. The map marks step-free access from
the sub-surface lines at Kings Cross, which could be boarded from
Wembley Park, so presumably a lift to the Northern Line also opens up
interchange at Kings Cross which means you could travel from Woodside
Park to Wimbledon, for example.

Still, we've done train spotters dismissing the needs of people in
wheel chairs, with visual handicaps, with children, travelling in
groups of more than one, etc, before, so it's hardly a new tendency.

ian