John Rowland wrote:
Dave Arquati wrote:
Oh, and at what point is it easier to mark out stations that *aren't*
step-free? East London looks like a bit of a mess (albeit a good one
if you don't use steps).

They don't seem to have realised that most of the Goblin stations are
already step free.

Saying that, so is Olympia - there's no step-free interchange between
southbound WLL and other trains, but there is step-free access from all
platforms to the street (the criterion used in the map).

I also realised that "Shepherd's Bush Market" needs some works to become
step-free which I didn't realise were planned.

Moving back to the map in general, the difficulty with step-free
information (which has been said on here many times before) is that it's
just one possible piece of information out of many about a station that
might be useful to people with difficulty moving around. Green Park has
step-free interchange between lines, but if I were taking someone with
walking difficulties on the Tube, I'd avoid it like the plague.

I wonder whether a "one-size-fits-all" approach is a bit out-of-date.
What might be useful is a dynamically-generated Tube map that users
could create online, which would plot details relevant to them. For
example, if you had trouble walking longer distances but could manage a
few steps, then you could enter those attributes into a page and have it
generate a Tube map showing which stations are the most attractive
interchanges and which are the least attractive.

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

Dave Arquati wrote:
Moving back to the map in general, the difficulty with step-free
information (which has been said on here many times before) is that it's
just one possible piece of information out of many about a station that
might be useful to people with difficulty moving around. Green Park has
step-free interchange between lines, but if I were taking someone with
walking difficulties on the Tube, I'd avoid it like the plague.


Only Picc and Jub, isn't it? Or are there some Victoria Line lifts that
I've missed...?Anyway, agreed.

Given that both the Victoria and Jubilee part 1 were built with lots of
easy interchanges at other stations, and that the area under Green Park
wasn't exactly a King's Cross-style place of massive complexity, why
did they make everything so far away and hard to get between?

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John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org