There was an announcement when I was in Westminster tube yesterday that Blackfriars station is closed until 'late 2011' for 'major improvement works'. How 'silly', I thought. Surely a major improvement after being closed for two years is simply being open? Perhaps they're not doing any work to the place - 1) no-one will remember what it looked like, 2) they'll just be so gosh-darned happy to have the wee place back again.
I mean really, what works are possibly going to take nigh on three years to get done? If it was Changing Rooms they would have been able to do it in two days - AND it would have been decked out in a charming mock regency theme.
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The mainline station above is being completely rebuilt over the next 2 and a bit years, and in order to do that the tube station has to be closed anyway so it's being completely rebuilt too. The Fleet Sewer also runs understand the site which makes it more challenging.
ReplyDeleteThere's more about it on http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk/cms/pages/view/40 and http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/11207.aspx
According to the LU investment programme portfolio they're also sinking a new surface/platform lift shaft for disabled access as well as relaying the track.
ReplyDeleteThat's all very well, but it makes my post far less funny.
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Hello backacha.
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