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Posted by Fytton on Wed Mar 9 06:19:59 2005, in response to Re: London news, posted by Max Roberts on Wed Mar 9 05:44:43 2005. "Covent Garden still irritates many people. A double-ended station under Long Acre would serve Leicester Square and Covent Garden effectively."Both Leicester Square and Covent Garden stations are maxed out at peak theatre- and restaurant-going times. They *are* very close together, but clearly all of the entrances and exits from the tube are needed. The ideal solution would be the Chicago State Street one of continuous platforms between the stations, but that would mean enlarging the running tunnels between the two stations to platform-tunnel dimensions. I guess that is what you described, but it would be very expensive. There are also short distances between Embankment and Charing Cross on the Bakerloo and Northern lines, but Embankment is needed for interchange with the District and Charing Cross for interchange with national rail. Again, the State Street solution would be fun, but there isn't any obvious ource of money for it. The other examples you quote are all new interchanges (even Southwark, with Waterloo East national rail); the logic would then be to close the adjacent non-interchange stations. The East London Line extension project implies likely closure of Rotherhithe and Wapping; maybe they should close Surrey Quays too, but I guess that the change of name from Surrey Docks means that there are new housing developments there. Hanger Lane I am not familiar with, but I'd guess it isn't very heavily used. Southwark was probably political, like most things to do with the Jubilee Line extension, but there is no adjacent non-interchange station in that case anyway. Earlier in the history of the tube, a number of deep tube stations *were* closed because of little use: South Kentish Town, City Road, York Road, Down Street and Brompton Road. The last two were replaced by new entrances to the adjacent Piccadilly Line stations (Green Park - nee Dover Street - and Knightsbridge respectively). It's a bit surprising that Lambeth North survived; it too is very near Waterloo. |
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