On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:42:53 +0100, Paul Terry
wrote:

In message , Roland
Perry writes

The current booking hall is tiny. It's basically a corridor around the
liftshaft, at street level. Very similar to Russell Square, or Goodge
St.

Certainly that's currently the case. But looking from the outside, the
original Leslie Green station building appears to be one of his largest
- a corner site, with three big bays on the Long Acre side and an even
longer facade (three bays separated by infills) on the James Street
side.

However, don't I recall that LU rent out some of this space for
shops/kiosks? I'm sure I recall a bureau de change stuck in one of the
James Street bays. I wonder if they add to the congestion?

The same applies to the Long Acre elevation. Not sure how far back
these go, but potentially only about 45% of the ground space is used
by LU.
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