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Some way to go, but eventually the tube map may need to switch to showing which stations are *not* fully or partially step-free. I do not know of an accepted sign for lack of accessibility (perhaps wheelchair crossed out?).
Andrew | 13.10.20 - 8:34 a.m. | #
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I’d never notice this. Now I can’t under it!
Dan Browne | 13.10.20 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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I thought I was well versed in things mappy, but I hadn't spotted this. Nicely done.
Stuart R | 13.10.20 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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Can we have a report on visiting the nearest 'bar' to Watford, for a bottle of (Harry) Becks?
James Matcham | 13.10.20 - 9:58 a.m. | #
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I'm intrigued as to why steps would be needed at Watford, as a surface terminus station. There must be is some other issue with access.
Cau1khead | 13.10.20 - 10:01 a.m. | #
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Some terminus stations, like Watford, are built on sloping ground, hence the steps from platform up to street level.
The station's also Grade II listed, lightly used and not in London, so adding step-free access would be problematic.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.10.20 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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Although blobitus has claimed another victim, it looks like Aldgate still has a tick, so 1.5 terminus bars.
dg writes: Do read to the end.
Still Anon | 13.10.20 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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Another one surprised that Watford is the sole survivor compared to stations like Mill Hill East! Shame.
Cornish Cockney | 13.10.20 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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Possibly because Watford station was supposed to have closed this year, until the Croxley Link project was stopped.
As for why it needs steps, the original plan was for it to have been a through station, with the line continuing under Cassiobury Park to a terminus in the town centre. The Met bought No 44 High Street in 1927 as the proposed site of the terminus, but after the Met became part of London Transport in 1933 the plan was never completed. (LT's Bakerloo Line already served Watford). No 44 High Street is now a Wetherspoons.
timbo | 13.10.20 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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It may be time to change the way the map shows step-free stations. If eventually 100+ stations become step-free, there could be an awful lot of wheelchair blobs! (cf. DLR) Maybe they could put a smaller wheelchair symbol (or even just a blue dot, like I remember seeing in some map online), next to the station name (or across the line from it).
anon | 13.10.20 - 11:13 a.m. | #
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When last in London I tried to get a photo of a bus bound for Cockfosters just for the amusement of the name and being able to do something later with Cock, but I didn't.
Andrew | Homepage | 13.10.20 - 12:10 p.m. | #
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With many people using online maps, perhaps TfL could offer a blob free version, with many of the original design features reinstated, for the benefit of those for whom the blobs are of no relevance nor interest.
ActonMan | 13.10.20 - 3:28 p.m. | #
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In reply to ‘anon’ - the Tube map used to only show blue blobs. At the time, they indicated step-free access between the platform and the street. This was from around 2008 to 2012 when the current blobs were adopted.
I think it might be better to have an anti-blob for those stations without any form of step-free access - that would be easier on the eye but more confusing in the long-run I guess.
Rob Healy | Homepage | 13.10.20 - 3:31 p.m. | #
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Glad Watford Metropolitan Station continues to function. Lived just down the road from it in the 1950s. It's catchment area was in fact quite large as a number of people used the station who lived in new estates on the other side of Cassiobury Park. Can vouch for this as when we were playing football in the park of an evening we would see mainly men making their way home from the station across the park.
Tones | 13.10.20 - 3:46 p.m. | #
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The Waterloo & City line used to look longingly at the others with their terminus bars.
wheedle | 13.10.20 - 7:54 p.m. | #
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Has the time come to move all disabled blobs from lines to station names, and go back to ticks?
Colly | 14.10.20 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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