NEW PICCADILLY CIRCUS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 16

NEW PICCADILLY CIRCUS

BRINGING AN OLD-TIME THOB- ;; \OUGHFARE TTP TO DATE.

Circus; "the centre of the ■world,'' has . already undergone certain changes since the war. The fountain and the flower-girl .still remain, but round about them new buildings have arisen, or are about to arise, while at nighttime, ■when the flower-girls are gone, there is now a, new attraction (new at least to thow> who only know the old Piccadilly) —a no»t ol high-light advertisements that are kept in perpetual motion A more ambitious change than any is the proposed rebuilding of the underground station, because of the growth of traffic during recent years. - when completed, passengers will be. able to cross the circus in safety by means of. seven subways! ■ The new; station will be about 15ft under : the ground; it will b,e oral in. shape, with a large, circulating area from which six separate esalators will connect with the-Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines, three feeding each. The central escalator^in each; groupi will be reyers-ible,.-so.that at the busiest periods of the day two escalator* in each group can be run .in either..aß upward or downward direction. By the installation of fifteen passimeterg -it is hoped practically to eliminate booking, queues. "When this transformation is-completed the men from the north will have'more reason than ever for coming to London for their •nnajl bslidw. _,■