There's a beautiful, gently ascending ramp linking the platforms at Paddington mainline station with those of the Hammersmith and City line. It's been a long time coming.

It's so well made that it would n't surprise me at all if a colony of skateboarders did n't move in...except they won't. The British Transport Police (wisely in my eyes) would soon put paid to any ambitions on that scale. Pity, that. I'd quite like watching salvo after salvo of skateboarders launching themselves over the three steps at the top of this ramp, then cut shapes and pirouette in mid-air, before clattering back to earth and weaving through the battalions of commuters.

It's those three concrete steps at the top of the ramp that'll test their ingenuity, test anyone's; but then why build a ramp with steps at the top anyway. Are n't ramps in public spaces there to help wheelchair bound people, or people with prams, so why the steps at the top ? Exactly how is someone with a double buggy going up the ramp, or someone in a wheelchair wanting to come down, going to be able to overcome a three step hurdle? Great gesture, just no help to those who need it most. It's up there with having a mailbox to handle no reply e-mails. Why ? What am I missing here?