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No sure what link is being made here.

When it comes to buses, DLR, trams and Overground, wheelchair users are vastly outnumbered by buggies for babies and toddlers during the day.

Very few buggies or wheelchairs are found on the Underground, and people who have difficulty walking also seem to avoid the tube, possibly because of the streams of people who want to move faster in the narrow corridors.

Surely it is not anticipated that infants and the disabled will find a great need to travel around the Underground in the early hours of the morning?

RayL | 13.08.16 - 8:39 a.m. | #

RayL: because adults with impaired mobility should be confined to their home at night, with the infants?

Andrew | 13.08.16 - 9:08 a.m. | #

"adults" with impaired mobility (drunk) will no doubt need as many 'step-free' options as possible?

E | 13.08.16 - 9:20 a.m. | #

Also, South Woodford and Barkingside have eastbound only step free access, so journeys could be made from/to them.

the orange one | 13.08.16 - 9:27 a.m. | #

Note that at Woodford, one of the entrances "will be locked". Or will this now change with night tube operation?

Remember that with NightTube certain entrances/exits that are normally open during the day will not be open at night.

e.g. at Euston for the Vicotria Line, the NR concourse will NOT be open, and instead you'll come in and out via the taxi rank to the west of the station.

At Liverpool Street when you exit the Central Line you'll use the steps that take you to the footbridge up over the sub-surface platforms and come out on Old Broad Street - again, not the main NR concourse.

Geofftech | 13.08.16 - 10:40 a.m. | #

@Andrew/

I don't see this as targeted against the mobility-impaired. From next weekend, there will be more journeys available to everyone at night than there were before.

If the Night Tube had been opened with those seven stations specifically excluded, then you might have something to grumble about.

In any case, level access only helps one group of disabled people. For those who cannot walk far, a short flight of steps is far preferable to a long ramp. And somewhere to sit while waiting for a train is essential for many who don't bring one with them.

timbo | 13.08.16 - 6:57 p.m. | #

Plus all the journeys from Northern to Piccadilly or Victoria changing at Kings Cross, or Northern to Jubilee changing at London Bridge.

I think you will be able to get from any step free Night Tube station to any other, although in some cases the routes may be rather convoluted.

greatkingrat | 14.08.16 - 1:45 a.m. | #

The Northern line's Night Tube service won't include the Bank branch, so won't go to King's Cross or London Bridge.

The only step-free interchanges on the Night Tube will be at Green Park (J,P,V), King's Cross (P,V) and Stratford (C,J), which means the Northern line will be completely cut off from the other four.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 14.08.16 - 8:23 a.m. | #

@greatkingrat, all northern line trains will run via Charing Cross

Daniel Herridge | 14.08.16 - 8:26 a.m. | #

Northern Line users can still get onto the Victoria Line without using stairs/escalators through the cross platform interchange at Stockwell!

There's also the step free interchange at Finsbury Park (Pic/Vic) though obviously this is less crucial than the one at Stockwell.

the orange one | 14.08.16 - 9:48 p.m. | #

...in which case, yes, it would be possible to get from (say) High Barnet to Hainault by heading down the Northern line to Stockwell, overshooting to Clapham North, getting the train back to Stockwell and changing to the Victoria line, then changing to the Jubilee line at Green Park and finally changing to the Central line at Stratford.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 14.08.16 - 10:04 p.m. | #











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