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Finsbury Park station tunnel
I know I walk pretty fast, but does anyone else get annoyed by people in the tunnel on the way to the station. The most annoying is people who need to hold hands walking down. Surely there are more romantic places to do this. There are also lack of overtaking places, especially when people cant walk in straight lines. Sometime you can walk on the opposite track but risking annoying people who walk in the opposite direction. There are also 2 oyester card readers when you exit in the evening but everyone seems to block the tunnel for the first one.
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If you are not using Oyster Pre-Pay, but have a season ticket instead, there's no need to touch in at Finsbury Park. When you touch out at your destination the Oyster reader knows you have a season ticket on your card.
I fear I'm in the camp that adds to their hatred...
Personally I feel it's more like a motorway so would rather overtake on the right. How about we all start doing this and then slowly an accepted etiquette might form!
Its also best to charge in between people holding hands, this will do one of two things.
Either break their fingers = Win
Or they will continue to hold on, but the force of you pushing will force them to wrap around your body and they will bang into eachother hopefully smashing eachothers faces in the process.
This also = Win.
Also if there is someone in a wheelchair or an old person with a stick then these are fair game too as they are almost always fakers.
Its best to kick their stick out from under them and then trample over on their face.
Or tip them out of the chair and rush down the tunnel with the chair and roll it under the next coming 210 bus.
Although the romantic element is nice
...then again I get the bus
But I'm sad like that.
Looking forward to seeing how they finish off the bits around the handrail pole things.
Does anyone know when this part of the refurb is supposed to be done? Any word on the remainder of the station renovations, like opening the second tunnel? There was an article on the beeb about how lots of the station redevelopments were axed due to the crises, but FP was not mentioned.
Arky
Then, when they've finished, they'll replace the handrail and the middle tiles in one big (or maybe two) big goes, bolting the new handrail on top of the new middle tiles.
It would be too fiddly to do this as they go.
My mind wanders easily.
Also, you know where those two tunnels join with the main 'bridge' tunnel giving access to the platforms? You know how there's a sort of temporary wall up there, against the outer wall? I used to assume that this was because that would where the new tunnel to City North/Goodwin St would be. But this is not so - the City North plans clearly show the entrance as connecting with the Seven Sisters tunnel a few metres down. This factlet may be interesting to someone. Also, if they do open the second tunnel up and extend it into the Wells Terrace tunnel they will spoil a lot of their new paintwork and tiling.
Arky