On 18 Oct 2006 07:36:51 -0700, "Boltar" wrote:


Harry G wrote:
but perhaps it might be considered when Wembley Stadium opens - not for
passenger use at CX, but simply to allow extra shuttles to serve the
Baker Street to Wembley Park section.

But in that case why not just allow passengers on the train to and from
CX? If no one uses it then is no different to the station being used as
a reverser , but if even only 1 person uses the service then its been
of some use.

The reason is that the benefit to that one passenger is massively offset
by the huge volumes of people with longer wait times and far more
congested travelling conditions on the extension. In short the
disbenefits outweigh the benefits and there is no way on earth that a
business case could be constructed to allow re-opening as per your
suggestion. LU would not be in compliance with the appraisal
methodology set out by TfL / DfT if it was to ignore the disbenefit of
lower service levels on the extension.

If they'd closed the branch completely , taken up the track and so
forth
then obviously it would be futile to talking about re-opening the
platforms
to passengers. But its all still in fully working order AFAIK and the
only thing
they'd need to do to allow passengers back on is knock down the
partition they've put up in front of the escalators.

I think the comment by another poster about the escalators being life
expired is correct. Given the depth of the platforms - even from the
intermediate level - I do not believe a stair only option would be
considered acceptable or safe. I'm sure there are standards relating to
this sort of thing and there may also be evacuation issues as well.

--
Paul C


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