Talk:Covent Garden tube station
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The last edit by 217.150.114.18 put way too much detail into the article, I felt. People don't need to know that the corridors are tiled with lightly coloured tiles. However, it is probably true as I did an IP check on the user and he/she lives in London.
- In fact I live in zone 1 of London. The tiling is VERY unusual, the colouring of the passageways to the lift in particular (which is also light) makes the station appear really quite surreal. Another wierd feature is that Lloyd Grossman has done a voiceover for 2 of the lifts describing the surrounding area (its quite annoying and I try to use the other 2 lifts when at all possible). 217.150.114.18
The Lloyd Grossman voiceover is well worth mentioning. Especially since it's both jarring and out of character with the locale. As I live in Covent Garden this is one of the stations I use most often. The tiling may well be light but as the station is fairly small and one of the most congested on the underground, the comment of airiness seems at best mistaken. It also needs to mention how many steps people need to climb to reach surface level. I think it is the equivalent of going 11 floors. Will check this out.
As regards the time to walk between Covent Garden and Leicester Square tube stations. It is certainly the case that to walk from one station entrance to the other would take less time than to enter one station, travel by train to the other, and then leave - even if a train arrived as you reached the platform, and you got a lift at CG straight away. But I would say that the walk from one station entrance to the other would take longer than the train journey time platform to platform.
