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>or the decision to not connect Crossrail to Oxford Circus and force people to walk up, along the street and down instead. Crossrail runs directly under Holbor
by tobylane 11y ago
>or the decision to not connect Crossrail to Oxford Circus and force people to walk up, along the street and down instead.
Crossrail runs directly under Holborn, Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Circus and Bond Street, but it's not a frequently stopping line like the Central that visits all of them. Also the far exit from TCR and BS are a considerable way towards OC. It costs the same to go on the Central line to OC even if you started your journey on Crossrail.
- lmm 11y agoOne of Crossrail's stations is only 200m from Oxford Circus underground station at platform level; it could have been a "double-ended" station like many other Crossrail stations. There was a deliberate decision not to connect them.
- tobylane 11y agoBecause OC is one of the most overcrowded stations in the entire system, it's closed one in three workday evenings due to dangerous overcrowding. However when the CR2 Euston-StPancras-KingsX station opens with a walkway from PancrasX far longer than 200m, it may look a bit silly for OC not to be directly connected.