Reduced Mobility Access at Croxley

[croxleyn]

For many years the community has been campaigning to get lifts installed, as the stairs are steep. However, it's obvious that lifts don't come cheap, and have continuing costs.

We were promised that the new Cassiobridge station, as part of the Met Line Extension would be fully accessible, but of course that's all abandoned.

However, there is a compromise: the up platform is adjacent to the carpark, with a full height fence splitting the stairs, ticket and non-ticket side - there used to be flat access here. How much would it cost to put an Oyster gate into this fence, and magnetic locked side gate with intercom to the "control room" for wheelchair use? Mind you, from the frequency of seeing the top gates on free flow, we could have just a card validator.

For travellers in the opposite direction, they could easily stay on the train for its turn-around at Watford (or swap to the next out), then exit on the Up platform. Now, how would this be depicted on a map?

[Chris M]

A gap in the fence and Oyster validator sounds like a quick win. For a more expensive option, if there is space, a single wide-aisle gate remotely monitored from the ticket hall would be possible. However if you do either you might as well unsegregate the stairs as nobody is going to go all the way up and all the way down if they don't have to - suggesting a single gate might not have capacity. TfL it seems are spending not insignificant money on LO to replace validators with gates, so whether be would be happy to do the opposite here is questionable - especially as the layout of the car park means that it isn't realistically step-free for anyone who doesn't arrive by car. Better than nothing though.

[goldenarrow]

On the standard Tube map, I’d say nothing at all. Several stations at the Essex end of the Central line are classified as step free in one direction only but only display this on the Accessible Tube map.