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I used the use the 'old' escalators in the morning peak every day before the pandemic and most days I was still shuffling off the platform towards the foot of the escalator by the time the next train came in. It was even worse when the down escalator was out of action and the fixed stairway was down only. If at the same time the northern line was having problems and you had to slowly crush down the steps to the platforms I suppose it could just about take 9 minutes for the connection. Quite an extreme example to quote 9 mins with gay abandon in the press release though! When the jubilee line was down in the peaks, they often used to close the DLR at Bank as it just couldn't cope and it was a pretty horrible experience to use the station every morning so I'm very pleased these escalators are open and very much look forward to the central line moving walkway connection too!

JP | 14.10.22 - 7:27 a.m. | #

Any plans to reduce the time from the Waterloo and City, seems to take me a whole nine minutes to get to the other lines from there.

davews | 14.10.22 - 8:17 a.m. | #

This is a bit of a guess but TfL has a Journey Time Metric which, for each Line, crunches the average journey time. It also has a theoretical one which is the non delays typical journey time.

My guess is that this has been applied to Bank and the DLR, and that the average typical journey time has been shaved by better connection through the station, a % of people making trains that would have been missed and a shorter dwell time on the DLR platform due to loading being more even down the platform.

Putters | 14.10.22 - 8:32 a.m. | #

I wonder if TfL's journey planner will show that journeys are now nine minutes faster?

Maybe they'll reduct the disgraceful time they added a couple of years ago to enter and exit a station.

Hadders | 14.10.22 - 8:42 a.m. | #

It looks nice, but I wonder why they didn't finish putting all of the white panels in place before re-opening...

cau1khead | 14.10.22 - 10:46 a.m. | #

"...accuracy is not an intrinsic part of their offering"

Bravo! There are so many targets for this simple but devastating phrase.

Frank F | 14.10.22 - 12:33 p.m. | #

Interesting they are going with a slow drip feed on this opening, rather than big bang.

Jordan D | 14.10.22 - 3:48 p.m. | #

I wonder if they've jumped the gun and this is actually the supposed time saving between the Central Line and the DLR when the travelator eventually opens. It is quite a walk at the moment. But again maybe not as much as 9 minutes!

Sean | 14.10.22 - 5:27 p.m. | #

The museum-style room recounting the history of the power station sounds just my cup of tea. I lived in London in the 1970s, but things have changed a great deal since then. So have I :)

Hels | Homepage | 15.10.22 - 1:43 p.m. | #

I suspect the 9 minutes may be a misinterpretation of a 'generalised journey time' improvement.

Transport models often apply 'weights' to different parts of journeys - time spent walking up a stairs is treated in a certain well-used pedestrian flow model with a weighting of x4, so spend 1 minute walking up stairs and the model will treat it as 4 minutes for calculation purposes. This does have a purpose, since people are _generally_ (but not always) more willing to take longer (as measured by a stopwatch) if they're exerting less effort, and therefore the model will route passengers up an escalator rather than up a flight of emergency stairs that would be a few seconds faster.

So I can believe that a quick extract from a pedestrian flow model might give a 9 minute 'generalised journey time saving', influenced by: time spent on escalators/stairs, time spent in crowded conditions, time spent shuffling along, etc.

Anonymous | 16.10.22 - 11:39 a.m. | #











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