Fun fact: this "new" entrance to Buckhurst Hill is an original one, that was closed off due to London Underground cost cutting. It's closure meant they could reduce the staffing levels at the station.
Yeah that's clearly not actually wheelchair accessible.. Especially with how steep the ramp is.. Were people with physical disabilities even consulted on this crap idea.
So the official TfL list says that there's currently 74 step-free stations on the Underground - that is, all lines in all directions at that station are step free. If you then include Victoria (Victoria Line only) and Waterloo (Jubilee Line only) it's 76. And then the following stations have step-free access in ONE direction only: Amersham, Barkingside, Borough, Cannon Street, Debden, Elephant & Castle (Northern Line), Euston Square, Liverpool Street (Sub-surface), Paddington (Praed), Rickmansworth, Ruislip, South Woodford, Theydon Bois, Waterloo (Bakerloo), West Brompton
Step-free stations on the Underground is great. We need these for the national rail network too, so disabled passengers can access trains without requiring assistance from the guard/conductor. Especially since some train companies want to get rid of the guard/conductor.
Wowza I had no clue that so few London trains had disabled access! Here in Melbourne, where granted our network is a lot worse in many ways, all of the stations are fully step free except for one! Nice video btw :)
A station that desperately needs step free access is Harrow-on-the-Hill. It's very busy at times and is an interchange station between the Chesham/Amersham/Watford line, the Uxbridge Line and Chiltern Services. However it is nearly impossible due to its location with one end back out onto a shopping area.
Rhys Benjamin they could also build inclined lifts up into the station, although you would lose a third of the entrance stairs and some lifts at the ends of the platform stairs they take people down. Although this might reduce the passenger flow.
The closed captions come up with their usual wonderful mistakes - like at 3:04. Geoff - "TfL go about their program of adding lifts and ramps and making stations step free. Bromley-by-Bow is the latest to get a lift to go step free." Closed Captions - "TfL girl about their program of adding lives and rats and making stations step 3 romney by boat it's the latest tube station to get lift to go to step 3. I just want to have a right lean in the air and probably by boat..."
As an abelbodied person without children I don't think to much about this, but seeing the ramp and barriers across it I think it's a bit of a strech calling it step free, you wouldn't get past that with a wheelchair or buggy.
As a wheelchair user the slalom gates on many underpass ramps are a bit of a nightmare, since anything requiring turing across the direction of the slope is difficult. I came to needing a wheelchair in my late 40's and even when using my powered chair anything that requires traversing a slope is awkward at beast. The problem is that the front wheels caster, and so the chair is always trying to turn downhill. I know a lot of children's buggies will pass under the barrier, but that doesn't work for us wheelchair users.
On holiday from NZ in June we had to travel from Heathrow to Hammersmith on the Tube. I was amazed to find at some stations the Platform is higher than the train by more than 15cm’s easily. I’m glad I noticed, we could have tripped very badly. They announce mind the gap - I think it should include watch your step too!! We stayed in London for 4 nights & really enjoyed using the Underground. It was so easy to get around & avoid traffic. Enjoy your channel very much. MikeNZ
Yes Geoff as you have discovered step free depends upon your perspective and entirely Reliant on whether you walk or not and of course in my case as I am a scooter user steps will be no good in any Direction. Looks like I need to make my own video about the station's you have featured because there is disparity in the details. Of course the annoying thing for myself and my wheelchair using friends is the 1 sided accessibility mentioned where A Station has access in One Direction only and you need to go to the next station and change to come back making your journey extra long
There are a few stations on east central line that have quite a step on to the train I think Loughton was one example so if they ever replace the trains a raising lowering suspension would be the most cost effective solution
Chorleywood is step free but the ramp to do so is an underpass. Its so steep i would not want to do that in a wheelchair. Like he said with the steep ramp in vid. Step free does not necessarily mean good accessibility
And with a steep ramp like that, how easy is it to navigate through those barriers (at 7:04 ) half way down? Is there room to duck under the right hand side? Or are you likely to take the top of your head off as you free-wheel down?
The Bromley-by-Bow station in my opinion, on the maps, should be described as "step-free access from street to train". Well done TFL :-) I often travel from this station. Everything would be perfect but TFL contractors late in the evenings, park on the pavement - unabled me to go in my wheelchair towards Bow Church and I had to make circle way through Devons Road.
When we visited London we always thought “mind the gap” was horizontal... until we almost fell off the train at a station because the floor of the car was a least a foot above the platform level! My wife is legally blind and uses a white cane to get around. She was like, “that’s not a gap, it’s a cliff!” I don’t know how someone who can’t step up that high or needs a wheelchair can get around, unless they are working to fix things so the platforms and the car floors are the same uniform height.
Why are TFL replacing original tiles with 'charmless' white tiles? Any architectural character is being completely lost. Could we not retain and repair, or replace with new tiles in the same colours and pattern? Are stations not listed buildings?
The early network was tiled white to allow maximise illumination of their gloomy gas-lit platforms. The only answer until then was masses of plain white reflective tiling. However, by the turn of the century, with electric lighting improving all the time, thoughts of something more than functionality came to mind. Opened in 1906/7: the Bakerloo, Piccadilly and Hampstead (now Northern) Lines. Their platform decoration forms the main subject, where about two million tiles were used at platform level alone.The tiling of over 90 tube platforms, and associated passageways, staircases and surface-level booking halls, probably amounted to the largest single creation of decorative art on public display anywhere - and arguably the longest and thinnest art gallery in the world. Each station had a unique coloured pattern along the entire length of its platforms. I have pulled most of this from a website but it was the point I was trying to make.
Those interchange signs for the E-line make it look like a tube line. It needs to have a roundel on it and with no purple strip to show it's a different system like Overground and National Rail signs at tube stations. Hey Geoff, I wonder if you could ask to have the old Crossrail panel?
Of course all those new step free stations are out in the suburbs and hence stations on the surface. Converting Central London deep stations to step free will a massively difficult and expensive operation. Many of the current stations may be step free, but don't have level access to the train though.You still have that final step to get into the train...
Interesting how they've made Buckhurst Hill step free by reopening the old ramps. I didn't see you pass through a ticket barrier, did you not show that bit or has Buckhurst Hill joined the list of very few tube stations where you can access the platforms without passing through a ticket barrier?
Silly question: Can you get one of those "avoiding stairs" Tube maps at the Heathrow stations? While dragging a huge case through the system, I've cursed the Victorians and their damned stairs more times than I care to remember.
@@6yjjkthat's a very good point. The normal tube map does indicate which stations are step free too with a blue wheelchair symbol (level access for wheelchair users) or a white one (ramp needed for wheelchair access). If you're taking the Piccadilly line, then Green Park is quite useful for the west End and is step free
When you said "step free" I thought you meant that there was no step from the platform onto the train. It has always puzzled me why there was a nasty big step up between the platform and the carriage floor of the train. I have never been able to find the answer to why they were not level with each other. In Tyne and Wear the METRO is in the majority of cases the platform to carriage, is level.
I've assumed it could be due to the floor on newer rolling stock being higher than older rolling stock, or failure to use a reliable reference when constructing platforms.
It is just not good enough , what is needed is a Gateway map that tells us which station to get on and off nearest to where we are going and where we can change
Me and my wife are both wheelchair-users and we are very happy that TFL installs lifts at many Tube stations. But there is one, stinky problem, some passangers use lifts as toilets. The lift B at the Bond Street station smells horribly.
Step free does not mean that mobility scooters can use them ,because of the gap between the train and the platform. Some scooters have small wheels that become trapped.
55% of London underground is irrelevant, ok got it. Of course it's irrelevant, The only thing which matters is the ability for lesser and disabled people to use the public transport options effectively. Stop being obtuse and crawl back underneath the bridge you came from.
It's a new station building on the surface, but below ground is still 1900s. Lifts were looked at but the cost came out at over £100m because it turns out there are lots of utility tunnels in the way (there is a Water facility very near the station) which would have blown the budget.
Thank you for the explanation. This puzzled me for a few years. Maybe it will be cheaper to build the underground tunnel and connect this station with the opposite Overground station? £100m it is very expensive...
Yes it is the no-steps map. Most lifts have been replaced by Escalators, there is no map of lift.stair stations- but someone could create one. They will be on tube sections (All Sub-surface lines are accessible by stairs ?) Eg Mornington Crescent, Elephant and Castle, Kennington, Essex Road, Goodge Street.
what changed did they do for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics on the underground? and do TFL need a push/ attitude like that to make it near 100% step free? ~ are there stations that cannot possibly become step-free?
well somewhere in world - chicago transit has commited having 100% step free i think there was press about it few years ago so why not LU could speed up on overground stations where its easy to build lifts or ramps however at Buckhurst Hill - the steep ramps are bad idea - why not install lifts at that location - replacing the ramp with easier access because i noticed the metal bars on other side its not good for wheelchair to try to avoid bars - the solution would be a lifts to platforms only
Croxley could become step-free, but after the Croxley Rail Link's basically been canned I don't see lifts - the only real option at Croxley - coming any time soon.
and anyways, TfL's budget have been really squeezed in the past few years - and it'll probably only get tighter. TfL aren't really willing to do something that's really expensive, such as installing a lift, when there are obviously cheaper alternatives, such as resurfacing a small disused pathway.
Andrew Pau Sawm Sian Piang good point wonder how much the new bus has cost them? Via buying them in the first place and the epidemic of fare evasion due to there bad design
Shocking that in 2018 there are still stations with steps and without platform edge doors. Rail maintainers should be able to claim upgrade funds from the govt, and their managers should be docked 50% of their salaries until they get it done.
Geoff Marshall that's true but I think that it should be a solid line on the map since I would say it's more like the tube than crossrail or the overground.
Oh no! More stations that classic Daleks can access!
Fun fact: this "new" entrance to Buckhurst Hill is an original one, that was closed off due to London Underground cost cutting. It's closure meant they could reduce the staffing levels at the station.
Those zigzag barriers halfway up the slope at Buckhurst Hill look like they'd make life pretty difficult for a wheelchair user or anyone with a buggy.
Yeah that's clearly not actually wheelchair accessible..
Especially with how steep the ramp is..
Were people with physical disabilities even consulted on this crap idea.
I could be wrong, but could a wheelchair go under the right hand arch?
Should've had Sarah from "Broome - Least Used Station In Shropshire" tag along and test the new step free stations.
Yes!
So the official TfL list says that there's currently 74 step-free stations on the Underground - that is, all lines in all directions at that station are step free.
If you then include Victoria (Victoria Line only) and Waterloo (Jubilee Line only) it's 76.
And then the following stations have step-free access in ONE direction only:
Amersham, Barkingside, Borough, Cannon Street, Debden, Elephant & Castle (Northern Line), Euston Square, Liverpool Street (Sub-surface), Paddington (Praed), Rickmansworth, Ruislip, South Woodford, Theydon Bois, Waterloo (Bakerloo), West Brompton
Geoff Marshall thanks for the info Geoff.
Step-free stations on the Underground is great. We need these for the national rail network too, so disabled passengers can access trains without requiring assistance from the guard/conductor. Especially since some train companies want to get rid of the guard/conductor.
Geoff Marshall How is Amersham only accessible in one direction? It’s a terminus
There’s no ticket barriers ?
Do you know if they will put step free access on all stations
dropping a like purely because you had to endure the central line in the summer
Ben Lipson is confusing
raj purran because the central line is one of the hottest tube lines and poeple faint on it in the summer
Wowza I had no clue that so few London trains had disabled access! Here in Melbourne, where granted our network is a lot worse in many ways, all of the stations are fully step free except for one! Nice video btw :)
What's that one station?
Why did you get on the central line willingly in this 28 DEGREES !!!!
So, you think 28 is hot? Oh brother, you need to get out more.
So do you, we're talking about the CENTRAL LINE!
JT 28 degrees IS hot where do you live? Australia?
Hot Weather for England is 4 degress celcius.
@@steampunklemur as a matter of fact i do live in australia and i can confirm 28 is kind of hot
A station that desperately needs step free access is Harrow-on-the-Hill. It's very busy at times and is an interchange station between the Chesham/Amersham/Watford line, the Uxbridge Line and Chiltern Services. However it is nearly impossible due to its location with one end back out onto a shopping area.
Rhys Benjamin they could also build inclined lifts up into the station, although you would lose a third of the entrance stairs and some lifts at the ends of the platform stairs they take people down. Although this might reduce the passenger flow.
Guys, they are planning for step-free access for Harrow-on-the-Hill. It's just that it won't arrive any sooner...like 2020
The website failed to mention that work is also going on at Newbury Park for lift installation.
The closed captions come up with their usual wonderful mistakes - like at 3:04.
Geoff - "TfL go about their program of adding lifts and ramps and making stations step free. Bromley-by-Bow is the latest to get a lift to go step free."
Closed Captions - "TfL girl about their program of adding lives and rats and making stations step 3 romney by boat it's the latest tube station to get lift to go to step 3. I just want to have a right lean in the air and probably by boat..."
Take a trip down to Maghull North, the newest station on the national rail network (opened yesterday). It is on the Ormskirk Line of Merseyrail! 😀
tinaonions 😄
As an abelbodied person without children I don't think to much about this, but seeing the ramp and barriers across it I think it's a bit of a strech calling it step free, you wouldn't get past that with a wheelchair or buggy.
As a wheelchair user the slalom gates on many underpass ramps are a bit of a nightmare, since anything requiring turing across the direction of the slope is difficult. I came to needing a wheelchair in my late 40's and even when using my powered chair anything that requires traversing a slope is awkward at beast. The problem is that the front wheels caster, and so the chair is always trying to turn downhill. I know a lot of children's buggies will pass under the barrier, but that doesn't work for us wheelchair users.
On holiday from NZ in June we had to travel from Heathrow to Hammersmith on the Tube. I was amazed to find at some stations the Platform is higher than the train by more than 15cm’s easily. I’m glad I noticed, we could have tripped very badly. They announce mind the gap - I think it should include watch your step too!! We stayed in London for 4 nights & really enjoyed using the Underground. It was so easy to get around & avoid traffic. Enjoy your channel very much. MikeNZ
You could have trupped virry bedly ?
I've developed some mobility problems since the last time I visited London so I appreciate that they are updating the stations to be step free.
You cut to Buckhurst Hill but leave the view over BBB canopies in the film!
That bin bag swaying in the breeze though.
2:38 for a crossrail branded jacket!
step free map sounds great... must pick up one for my dad who would love to travel to London but struggles to walk up and down stairs these days.
So if right now, 74 out of 270 stations are step-free, I suppose that makes it a 196-step program to get it all finished up :)
So that's 15 stories then
15 storeys of course.
Keep up the good work i admire your passion for trains and railnetworks 👌👍⚡💓💪
2:40 That bloke on the left has a Crossrail logo on his shirt, I think. What a coincidence.
I noticed that as well.
Yes Geoff as you have discovered step free depends upon your perspective and entirely Reliant on whether you walk or not and of course in my case as I am a scooter user steps will be no good in any Direction. Looks like I need to make my own video about the station's you have featured because there is disparity in the details. Of course the annoying thing for myself and my wheelchair using friends is the 1 sided accessibility mentioned where A Station has access in One Direction only and you need to go to the next station and change to come back making your journey extra long
There are a few stations on east central line that have quite a step on to the train I think Loughton was one example so if they ever replace the trains a raising lowering suspension would be the most cost effective solution
Newbury Park station (Central line) is getting new lifts
Wait there aren't any fare collection system at the last station
At the entrance / exit to the Eastbound platform there's definitely an oyster card reader.
Chorleywood is step free but the ramp to do so is an underpass. Its so steep i would not want to do that in a wheelchair. Like he said with the steep ramp in vid. Step free does not necessarily mean good accessibility
And with a steep ramp like that, how easy is it to navigate through those barriers (at 7:04 ) half way down? Is there room to duck under the right hand side? Or are you likely to take the top of your head off as you free-wheel down?
Interesting video Geoff and nice to know there are more step free access stations across the network.
The Bromley-by-Bow station in my opinion, on the maps, should be described as "step-free access from street to train". Well done TFL :-) I often travel from this station. Everything would be perfect but TFL contractors late in the evenings, park on the pavement - unabled me to go in my wheelchair towards Bow Church and I had to make circle way through Devons Road.
Where was the oyster card reader near the end at of the video?
At the entrance / exit to the Eastbound platform there's definitely a reader. Don't forget to touch out!
When we visited London we always thought “mind the gap” was horizontal... until we almost fell off the train at a station because the floor of the car was a least a foot above the platform level! My wife is legally blind and uses a white cane to get around. She was like, “that’s not a gap, it’s a cliff!” I don’t know how someone who can’t step up that high or needs a wheelchair can get around, unless they are working to fix things so the platforms and the car floors are the same uniform height.
Perfect since we are coming over in December.
Why do the sub-surface lines get new trains quicker.
Why are TFL replacing original tiles with 'charmless' white tiles? Any architectural character is being completely lost. Could we not retain and repair, or replace with new tiles in the same colours and pattern? Are stations not listed buildings?
It looks like my bathroom
The early network was tiled white to allow maximise illumination of their gloomy gas-lit platforms. The only answer until then was masses of plain white reflective tiling. However, by the turn of the century, with electric lighting improving all the time, thoughts of something more than functionality came to mind. Opened in 1906/7: the Bakerloo, Piccadilly and Hampstead (now Northern) Lines. Their platform decoration forms the main subject, where about two million tiles were used at platform level alone.The tiling of over 90 tube platforms, and associated passageways, staircases and surface-level booking halls, probably amounted to the largest single creation of decorative art on public display anywhere - and arguably the longest and thinnest art gallery in the world. Each station had a unique coloured pattern along the entire length of its platforms. I have pulled most of this from a website but it was the point I was trying to make.
Uncommon Knome perhaps we’re going back to white tiles for energy saving purposes?
Thanks for this Geoff...here s hoping it won’t be long till all stations on TFL are fully accessible and ASD friendly....
How is it autism friendly ??
Those interchange signs for the E-line make it look like a tube line. It needs to have a roundel on it and with no purple strip to show it's a different system like Overground and National Rail signs at tube stations.
Hey Geoff, I wonder if you could ask to have the old Crossrail panel?
Just got really excited that you visited Bromley-by-Bow lolll
west finchleys southbound platform is step free but the step free entrance is rarely open
I live at southwooford, the Central line actually goes through my back garden!!!
4:16 Anyone else notice the music note in the bin, based on angles? Just looks funny.
Being subscribed to your channel for a while, I had a feeling you would go to Bromley-by-Bow Station to talk about the new refurbishments going on
While you were at Bow, did you get off at Bow Road and visit the legendary Bus Stop M?
I wonder how many ramps it would take to equal a 15 storeys... Buckhurst Hill seems to be very close.
Insightful as ever, Geoff. And fantastic use of American Werewolf in London...!
In athens greece all meteo and suburban line stations are step free
“Passengers on the Bank branch headed for Kennington should continue to Oval then board a Charing Cross train to Kennington.”
Of course all those new step free stations are out in the suburbs and hence stations on the surface. Converting Central London deep stations to step free will a massively difficult and expensive operation.
Many of the current stations may be step free, but don't have level access to the train though.You still have that final step to get into the train...
And several stations in central London also need upgrading anyway, I'm looking at you, Oxford Circus
Wow. Should come to Newbury Park. Building a lift for both platforms making it step free
Interesting how they've made Buckhurst Hill step free by reopening the old ramps. I didn't see you pass through a ticket barrier, did you not show that bit or has Buckhurst Hill joined the list of very few tube stations where you can access the platforms
without passing through a ticket barrier?
Yeah the new step-free requires no barrier!
There's definitely an oyster card reader present when ypu enter / exit the platform
Can you revisit this video and let us know whether or not they met their 40% target?
Silly question: Can you get one of those "avoiding stairs" Tube maps at the Heathrow stations?
While dragging a huge case through the system, I've cursed the Victorians and their damned stairs more times than I care to remember.
The Heathrow stations all have step free access
@@grassytramtracks Well, yes. But plenty of places people might go to FROM Heathrow, or change trains at on the way, do not.
@@6yjjkthat's a very good point. The normal tube map does indicate which stations are step free too with a blue wheelchair symbol (level access for wheelchair users) or a white one (ramp needed for wheelchair access). If you're taking the Piccadilly line, then Green Park is quite useful for the west End and is step free
lovely video, like the Underground ones.
Ooh Amersham, my town got a shout-out!
The Zabeth line looks interesting
At Buckhurst Hill did you manage to get onto the platform without going through a ticket barrier?
The Central line is my local line.
The tube goes nowhere near my house cheers tfl
When you said "step free" I thought you meant that there was no step from the platform onto the train. It has always puzzled me why there was a nasty big step up between the platform and the carriage floor of the train. I have never been able to find the answer to why they were not level with each other. In Tyne and Wear the METRO is in the majority of cases the platform to carriage, is level.
That's being fixed too. Usually with a hump to make the centre pair of coaches level boarding. New builds (like the Metro) are level throughout
I've assumed it could be due to the floor on newer rolling stock being higher than older rolling stock, or failure to use a reliable reference when constructing platforms.
Do you think there's a better way to indicate accessibility on the Tube Map (TfL Map) than the blue blobs currently used?
Ruislip is only step free Eastbound, Westbound you have to use an old bridge.
Yack! Why Kone did not use KSS 140 fixtures… At least it has the klonk sound. :)
Any chance you noticed if the Labyrinth at Bromley By Bow is back in place?
When is the Farmington video coming out. I'm excited to see more purple
I love the underground so much, my favorite line is the Circle and Picerdily lines whats yours
It is just not good enough , what is needed is a Gateway map that tells us which station to get on and off nearest to where we are going and where we can change
About time! Its a scandal how unaccessible so much of Great Britain is.
Me and my wife are both wheelchair-users and we are very happy that TFL installs lifts at many Tube stations. But there is one, stinky problem, some passangers use lifts as toilets. The lift B at the Bond Street station smells horribly.
Andrew your telling me. MTA NYCT stations stink as hell.
Andrew your telling me. MTA NYCT stations stink as hell.
2:40 Look, the guy at the door is wearing a crossrail jacket!
Well Done for 71,000 also why did you get out at Stockwell from Brixton or start at Stockwell
Step free does not mean that mobility scooters can use them ,because of the gap between the train and the platform.
Some scooters have small wheels that become trapped.
How can you pay to get from London to reading when crossrail comes?
Didn't see any buzz in things on that step free entrance (buckhurst hill) Did you cut them out or is it a bypass?
there are Oyster pads readers on the platform by the new entrance/exit points
I thought Sydney was bad with only 55% wheelchair accessible. But 27% and 40% by 2020 is abysmal.
Although the DLR, Tramlink and JLE are all 100% step-free.
Bungle2010 what's your point? Sydney train network is up to 163 years old.
Good for it. Sydney train network is not underground.
Because it is the primary public transport option for the city. Being over or underground is irrelevant.
55% of London underground is irrelevant, ok got it. Of course it's irrelevant, The only thing which matters is the ability for lesser and disabled people to use the public transport options effectively. Stop being obtuse and crawl back underneath the bridge you came from.
The Shepards Bush station (Central Line) is a new station. I wonder why there is no lift...
It's a new station building on the surface, but below ground is still 1900s. Lifts were looked at but the cost came out at over £100m because it turns out there are lots of utility tunnels in the way (there is a Water facility very near the station) which would have blown the budget.
Thank you for the explanation. This puzzled me for a few years. Maybe it will be cheaper to build the underground tunnel and connect this station with the opposite Overground station? £100m it is very expensive...
Yes. You are right there is only new building but the same station and platform are from 1900.
Forgive me if this has been asked already. But are there no ticket barriers at Buckhurst Hill or are they Oyster readers on the platform?
There are at the main entrance but not when you are using step-free acess
1:00 covered up elizabeth line indications?
3:41 S stock at Buckhurst Hill ! :-)
Is there a map of non-escalator stations? (whether stairs and/or lifts?)
Yes it is the no-steps map. Most lifts have been replaced by Escalators, there is no map of lift.stair stations- but someone could create one. They will be on tube sections (All Sub-surface lines are accessible by stairs ?) Eg Mornington Crescent, Elephant and Castle, Kennington, Essex Road, Goodge Street.
Super! 😉
The whole of the Tyne and Wear metro is step-free ramps and lifts first in the U.K. to have all stations accessible to wheelchairs and buggies
so you dont need to climb the equivalent of a 15 storey building?
what changed did they do for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics on the underground? and do TFL need a push/ attitude like that to make it near 100% step free? ~ are there stations that cannot possibly become step-free?
well somewhere in world - chicago transit has commited having 100% step free i think there was press about it few years ago so why not LU could speed up on overground stations where its easy to build lifts or ramps
however at Buckhurst Hill - the steep ramps are bad idea - why not install lifts at that location - replacing the ramp with easier access because i noticed the metal bars on other side its not good for wheelchair to try to avoid bars - the solution would be a lifts to platforms only
Croxley could become step-free, but after the Croxley Rail Link's basically been canned I don't see lifts - the only real option at Croxley - coming any time soon.
The bars are on the public footpath, not the less steeply graded slope to the platform.
and anyways, TfL's budget have been really squeezed in the past few years - and it'll probably only get tighter. TfL aren't really willing to do something that's really expensive, such as installing a lift, when there are obviously cheaper alternatives, such as resurfacing a small disused pathway.
Andrew Pau Sawm Sian Piang good point wonder how much the new bus has cost them? Via buying them in the first place and the epidemic of fare evasion due to there bad design
ALL Sydney stations have been step for for at least 5-30 years !!!
What happend to all the stations ? I loved watching that chanel. Why has it stoped? Answers please.
they went to all the stations and finished off with the 1hr plus documentary
I live in Australia but still find this interesting
Why there are no toilets inside Tube trains or at all stations? Problem with toilets is a very smelly problem...
Shocking that in 2018 there are still stations with steps and without platform edge doors. Rail maintainers should be able to claim upgrade funds from the govt, and their managers should be docked 50% of their salaries until they get it done.
Should do a video about step free access at DLR stations ;) Best tube line. Yes I'm including it as a tube line, fight me.
easy. It's not a tube line. done.
Geoff Marshall that's true but I think that it should be a solid line on the map since I would say it's more like the tube than crossrail or the overground.
Sorry, Geoff, but the DLR tunnels under the river are in tubes rather than cut-and-cover (for obvious reasons!)
yes but a tube and The Tube are totally different things
I suspect part of the reason why they closed the flights of stairs is because of the lack of space for ticket barriers
7:43 why is there a signal there? I thought that the central line was ATO.
The Central Line uses fixed block ATO, which would still require signals.
Oh ok, I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the info!
27% to 40% in 2 years doesn't seem an incredibly lofty goal if some stations only need an elevator (lift, sorry) or two to be considered step-free.
Wait. Is there a thing called the 'public subway'?
Yes, Public in that it's outside the Fare control areas
Wait! How can Amersham be step free in one direction it’s a terminus?
Although it's where metropolitan line trains go no further, Chiltern trains sharing the tracks carry on out to Aylesbury
Aah, so these step free stations are equivalent to a 15 storey building, Right?
Can anyone tell me if it’s possible to get from Euston to parliament step free? If not then is there a bus? Thanks.
IF you need a camera person in London, I'm free............... until I find a new job....
Great vid By The Way.
Hi Geoff why don't you do all the station with a disabled persons to see how long it will take to do all the station
I want more steps
Then be sure not to take The Tube. Guaranteed more steps every time !
Please make North Acton step free!
We call this ADA Compliant in the states.
DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) is the UK equivalent
I can assure you those white tiles are not in the least bit amusing.