Originally Posted by
joshnesbit
sorry to jump into a thread that's so old, but was wondering how operationally it would work when the doors so that passengers can transverse the corridor to and from are open works. Does it temporarily stop the flow of traffic through the pier? as people are having to wait whilst other passengers (arriving or departing depending on the situation) cross the road?
Yes, as
sigma421 says it does stop passengber flow (either the flow of departing passengers if there's an arrival on the W side of the pier, or arriving passengers if there's one of the airlocks open to allow departing passengers access to the gates on the E side of the pier.
I work at the very tip of Pier 7, so I'm often going up and down. It's a frustrating game of roulette, betting on which side of the central partition will be quicker, and how often you might have to change over. My record for the longest time (getting stopped five times from the Caffe Nero kiosk to getting to the door by gate 22)... 27 mins.