In article , Roland Perry
writes
I am sceptical about this new concourse. The Circle line is under the
main road, so all you are altering is where people climb up to the
surface. I can't see why taking people a hundred yards further north to
start with helps very much.

For the Circle, it won't.

Similarly, the escalators for the deep tube lines stretch pretty much
parallel to the main road, from a point at the front of the station
towards KX Thameslink, and the tube platforms "point" that way too.
Taking people from the deep tube lines via this new concourse is also a
long way round.

Not so.

The main exit from the Northern Line will be from the western end via
stairs and then two flights of escalators to the Northern Ticket Hall.
The horizontal reach of these escalators will cover much of the distance
involved (at present, from the Northern Line you follow a hairpin to end
up almost where you started).

For the Piccadilly Line there will be a second set of escalators,
starting at the north end of the platforms; these will connect into an
extension of the Thameslink access tunnel which will lead to the
midpoint of the two flights of escalators from the Northern Line. This
tunnel will *roughly* follow the route of the present King's Cross
footbridge from platform 3/4 to the present FCC ticket office. It will
therefore be no longer - and far more convenient - than the present
exit.

That leaves only the Victoria Line exiting through the existing
concourse.

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