alison Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Just got this through from the ROH: "Important Travel Information Please be aware that from 24 February until the end of 2014, Covent Garden Underground Station will be exit only, to allow TFL to carry out planned works on the station lifts. This may affect your journey coming to a performance and your journey home. The nearest alternative London Underground Stations are Leicester Square (Northern and Piccadilly lines) and Holborn Station (Central and Piccadilly lines). For more information, please visit www.tfl.gov.uk" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl H Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Also, at weekends westbound Piccadilly Line trains will not stop at Covent Garden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 19, 2014 Author Share Posted February 19, 2014 Oh boy, I can see this is going to be fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAB Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 How about removing the lifts and installing escalators. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Good idea MAB. I hate the lifts at Covent Garden so if tubing it always get off at Leicester Square but these days I'm usually on the bus so walking from the number 11 or 38!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 How about removing the lifts and installing escalators. There's no room, unless you can design a spiral escalator. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 There's no room, unless you can design a spiral escalator. ...and to use them, the password will be 'sherbert lemons' 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 (edited) There's no room, unless you can design a spiral escalator. A spiral escalator .... Now THAT'S an achievement that might actually be WORTH waiting for ... Just think, if that WERE possible, then the next time they were to shut the CG Station exit for months on end it might well be due to the development of a process whereby groups of passengers could disappear from the station platform (that historic entity) and materialize seconds later on the CG concourse. While I realise this would not be prime for buskers (there are plenty of them in the relatively fresh air outside as it is) ... you could THEN at least say that Star Wars had well and truly entered - from a practical perspective - unto the 21st Century. Surely THAT would be a ballet in and of itself and we all, of course, could choose our own music. Brilliant. Edited February 19, 2014 by Meunier 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 I love the idea of the spiral escalator!! I love the Egyptian escalator at Harrods and sometimes just go up,and down it for the sake of it......not that I'm in Harrods that often!! Last time was early January and I heard this wonderful voice coming from somewhere and then saw a lady on one of the balcony s all dressed up and giving a recital.......so doubly worth it on that occasion! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Going off on a tangent slightly, those posts in Harrods - designed to stop pushchairs getting onto the escalators - are a real pain when you are on crutches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I'll have a look next time S and P ......I haven't taken them in....or may have but not why they were there!! Why would any one want to struggle with a pushchair on an escalator when there are lifts!! Perhaps this should be pointed out to the store. There are often Harrods staff standing around the escalators who could advise the anyone with a push chair to use the lifts!! Then these posts wouldn't be needed. Does any other big department store have them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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