Before Overground – Bethnal Green
London Overground Have A Difficult Problem Here! – Rating 1/10
Bethnal Green station is probably why a doctor I know, left the area.
It was reasonably clean, but some of the things that passengers would like weren’t even there. In common with a lot of stations, there was no step-free access, but on the up platform, there wasn’t even any seats or a shelter.
Do London Overground really want to take control of this ruin?
Probably not, but on the other hand it does get a surprising number of over 700,000 passengers a year. And if the ones I saw today, struggling with kids and buggies on the stairs are typical, the station is a total disgrace!
To make matters worse, unlike Cambridge Heath, useful bus stops are not near the station.
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