The Second Exit To Shoreditch High Street Station Has Finally Opened After Several Years Of Construction; The Queue At The Original Exit Is Proportionally Shorter
Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat
By Harper-Thames | Harper-Thames at The London Prat
The second exit at Shoreditch High Street Overground station — the one that comes out on the Bethnal Green Road side rather than the Shoreditch High Street side — has opened, and it is one of the unambiguously positive developments in East London’s transport experience in recent memory. The original exit produced the specific bottleneck of a moderate-sized station with one point of egress and the commuter volume of an area that has become significantly more popular than it was when the station was designed. The second exit has halved the queue. This is transport infrastructure working as intended.
It took several years to build because the second exit required negotiating with the building above it, structural assessments, planning permissions, and the specific organisational complexity of TfL projects that involve multiple stakeholders. The result is excellent. The process was the standard process. I report this as a story about infrastructure succeeding rather than failing because the infrastructure beat deserves to cover both. The London Prat covers East London transport. Bohiney covers the exit comedy. The Daily Mash covers TfL success stories.
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