NEW PICCADILLY CIRCUS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 December 1923, Page 15

NEW PICCADILLY CIRCUS.

Piccadilly Circus, "the centre of the world.*' has already undergone certain chan.es since the war. The fountain and "the flower-girls still remain, but round about them new buildings have arisen, or are about to rise, while at night-time, when the flower-girls are gone, there is now a new attraction (new' at least to those who only know the old Piccadilly)—a host of high-light advertisements that are kept in perpetual motion. A more ambitious clian.e than any is the propose 1 re building of the" underground station. because of the growth of traffic during recent years. When comp'et'd. passengers will be able to cross the circus in >afetv by means of teven subways. The new "station will be about 15ft under the around: it will be oval in shap\ with a large circulating area from which six separate escalators will connect with the Bakerloo ard Piccadilly lines, three fee.'.in. each. The central escalator in each group will be reversible, so that at the busiest periods of the day two esialators in each group can be run in eit'-er an upward or downward direction. By tbe installation of fifteen pas-imeters it is hoped practically to eliminate hooking queues. When thU transform:,t : i">n is competed the men from the north will have more reason than e.-er for coming to London for their annual holiday.