On 6 Dec, 18:19, "Paul Scott" wrote:
I guess an underground paid side interchange to the WLL station would have
been difficult to engineer, in view of the footbridge access to the eastmost
platform?

The station building itself is level with the footbridge, so that's
not an issue. I think it would have been fairly straightforward to
have escalators coming up behind the gateline at concourse level, then
stairs and lifts down to the platforms as now.

But the new building isn't big enough for this, and it'd be bloody
expensive just for interchange. If they'd combined the two projects so
that the WLL station was also be the new Central Line station, it
might have made sense.

Presumably though, access to the actual shopping development may be via
either side of the bus station?

The shopping centre entrance is on the west side of the road, but
there'll be a crossing outside.

U

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