Notting Hill Gate passageways

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There is a passageway between the Met platforms and the top of the second flight of escalators to the Central Line that can be used to interchange between the two, thus avoiding the need to clamber up the stairwells and go via the cramped ticket hall.

Why then is it that the gateway allowing access from the Central Line to the passageway is always shut, and the sign above points passengers to the ticket hall? The gate allowing access to the Central Line escalators is always open for people going from the Circle to the Central, but the other gate is always shut...

[Chris M]

You obviously can't trust Central Line passengers

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I think it's for passenger flow reasons.

[Deleted]

i used to work at the station back in 1990 and it was decided that if you are comming off the circle /district that the flow with passengers is better that way than to struggle against the flow from the passengers from the central,plus during the day there is more demand from the circle than the central as in passenger numbers