John Rowland wrote:
Dave Arquati wrote:
Oh, and at what point is it easier to mark out stations that *aren't*
step-free? East London looks like a bit of a mess (albeit a good one
if you don't use steps).

They don't seem to have realised that most of the Goblin stations are
already step free.

Saying that, so is Olympia - there's no step-free interchange between
southbound WLL and other trains, but there is step-free access from all
platforms to the street (the criterion used in the map).

I also realised that "Shepherd's Bush Market" needs some works to become
step-free which I didn't realise were planned.

Moving back to the map in general, the difficulty with step-free
information (which has been said on here many times before) is that it's
just one possible piece of information out of many about a station that
might be useful to people with difficulty moving around. Green Park has
step-free interchange between lines, but if I were taking someone with
walking difficulties on the Tube, I'd avoid it like the plague.

I wonder whether a "one-size-fits-all" approach is a bit out-of-date.
What might be useful is a dynamically-generated Tube map that users
could create online, which would plot details relevant to them. For
example, if you had trouble walking longer distances but could manage a
few steps, then you could enter those attributes into a page and have it
generate a Tube map showing which stations are the most attractive
interchanges and which are the least attractive.

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London