The article touches on the Elizabeth line, but this area is a prime location Farringdon station is on both the Elizabeth line and Thameslink.
I’d sort of grimly expect that there’d be a rush to build tall office blocks all around the station, the sour taste of sweet progress.
Also it is just awkward to get to Smithfield from Farringdon, the station exit is a fair walk around a block, I had thought they could have opened station access directly to Smithfield.
They (imho) ruined Spitalfields market when it was developed a decade or so ago. A similar large open space market that used to serve indoor independent food stalls; a market and indoor 5 a side football. Half of the market was lost to office buildings and most of the food became chain restaurants. The market does still exist but the overall elegance of the historic building has been desecrated.
The different entrances to stations are missing from most maps, and they're important on the Elizabeth line. If anyone knows a map which has them, or knows how to add them to a map (like a layer on OSM/Google), let me know!
I’d sort of grimly expect that there’d be a rush to build tall office blocks all around the station, the sour taste of sweet progress.
Also it is just awkward to get to Smithfield from Farringdon, the station exit is a fair walk around a block, I had thought they could have opened station access directly to Smithfield.