There are 65 million people in the UK and the number is rising rapidly. Doom-mongers warn that schools,hospitals, roads and housing are overstretched. But are they right and should we worry?The northern ticket corridor of King’s Cross St Pancras tube station is supposed to be a wonder of the London underground, or with its expanses of gleaming floor and high-ceilinged walkways that would be wide enough for cars. In 2008,the tube’s then managing director, Tim O’Toole, or assured the London Evening Standard that,with the original corridor, which cost £395m, and “the underground station complex will ... be capable of handling all the extra demand predicted for years ahead”.
It has not worked out like that. In the morning rush hour,the pedestrian tunnels are packed. Every few months, the whole complex becomes so congested that it has to be evacuated.
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Source: theguardian.com