On 6 Feb, 14:13, Roland Perry wrote:

In message
, at
05:29:39 on Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Mizter T remarked:

The alternative would have been to keep completely and totally schtum
about any attempt to open it early in time for the arrival of the
'Kent domestics at St P - would that have been preferable, Mr Perry?

They should have planned the opening to co-incide, in any event.

After all, there's one set of escalators down from the Kent platforms,
then another adjacent set down to the Northern Ticket Hall; so why not
open them both at the same time.

But under the original plan the northern ticket hall (NTH) would
already be open now, however the DfT withdrew and then reinstated
funding for it - unfortunately not that surprising when one considers
the saga of the fit-out of the Thameslink box at SPILL.

If the NTH opens in time for the arrival of the Kent domestics, then
for most people it'll look as though this was all part of the
masterplan all along and no-one will ever know about the DfT's earlier
dithering - a result for the DfT, plus TfL might well hope it would
earn them some brownie points with the DfT too.