On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 20:19:14 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 18:09:42 on Mon, 3 Dec
2012, Phil Cook remarked:
For those of us, not London based, and whose world view of London owes
mostly (or even only) to the scale afforded by the Tube map, what was
the extent of the inconvenience (if any) that was caused by the
station closing.

In other words, how close is the nearest alternative?

Temple on the District/Circle is only 200m away.

Although anyone heading for Aldwych would have needed to go via Holborn,
so a diversion to Temple could be quite time consuming.

Covent Garden and Holborn on the Picadilly are no more than 700m away.

You could close Covent Garden if walking 200m (from Leicester Square)
isn't an issue.

I suspect if it wasn't for the huge volume of crowds travelling into that
part of town they probably would have long ago. Those lifts can't be cheap
to maintain.

B2003

In message , at 09:56:17 on Tue, 4 Dec
2012, d remarked:
You could close Covent Garden if walking 200m (from Leicester Square)
isn't an issue.

I suspect if it wasn't for the huge volume of crowds travelling into that
part of town they probably would have long ago. Those lifts can't be cheap
to maintain.

There are plenty of stations with much less passenger traffic where they
keep the lifts going. Goodge St, for example. It's close enough to both
Warren St and TCR that it's a bit of a luxury.
--
Roland Perry

Oddly, ISTR that the daily closings of Aldwych were performed by the
Station Supervisor at St Paul's station.

On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:09:42 +0000
Phil Cook wrote:
On 03/12/2012 17:40, allantracy wrote:

For those of us, not London based, and whose world view of London owes
mostly (or even only) to the scale afforded by the Tube map, what was
the extent of the inconvenience (if any) that was caused by the
station closing.

In other words, how close is the nearest alternative?

Temple on the District/Circle is only 200m away.

Covent Garden and Holborn on the Picadilly are no more than 700m away.

A 700m walk through crowded london streets is actually quite a long way.

B2003