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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2008 1:30:07 GMT
Just out of curiosity, how did the fire at Camden Market affect the planning for the new Camden station?
Also, will the LT Museum disassemble and save the Leslie Green oxblood facade of the original station building, like they did with the facade at Wood Lane? Or will they simply take a wrecking ball to the lot?
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Post by cetacean on Apr 18, 2008 6:43:25 GMT
Camden has several markets. The one affected by the fire was at the other end of Camden from the area they want to knock down for the new station.
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Post by angelislington on Apr 26, 2008 12:53:29 GMT
I can't imagine - pure speculation here, based on knowing that station v. well as a passenger - that the existing street-level building is really that effective for the amount of people that go through the station. I'm sure this is why they needed to 'nick' bits of the market - the bits opposite Inverness, that is - to build a bigger concourse.
I could be talking nonsense, though. ;D
I don't see why, though, that portions of the facade can't be left - it would be shame if it did have to go - I'm very fond of Leslie Green's stuff. If they did indeed extend the station along Camden High Street (towards Chalk Farm) I'd be so bowled over if they continued the facade as much as poss so it kept its charm and appearance.
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Post by Chris M on Apr 27, 2008 0:21:10 GMT
Another problem is the number of people who congregate immediately outside the station, so that they block other people trying to get out. Perhaps what they need to do is to have the current station building as entry only and build a new sub-surface concourse under the road junction with lots of exits - both sides of Chalk Farm Road, Kentish Town Road and Camden Road.
Link this to a new exit and interchange concourse at the southern end of the platforms and leave the current passages for entry only.
I suspect though that this would cost lots and be very disruptive.
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Post by ducatisti on Apr 28, 2008 9:16:52 GMT
I can confirm burning down the market had no effect on Camden town tube.
Agree about it being inefficient.
It gets used a lot by tourists who appear to not know how to use the tube netwolk (so how did they get there then?).
As well as the obvious surges between branches, it appears to have pretty high flows of traffic in both directions in rush hours. This presumably makes it harder to do clever stuff with escalators etc as they do in zone 1 stations that have one-way flows at peak.
The clever thing to (IMO) would be to dig a completely new set of escalators and concourse/ticket gateline etc going the other way from the central circulation zone (itself in need of expansion), then you can get some seperation of traffic flow.
Unfortunately, it would come up in the goth club, but I'm sure that's nothing that can't be taken care of with a special oyster code...
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