&gt; making it less likely for individuals to get lost and thus take up valuable commuter real estate<p>Directing people the long way around the station (as signage in more complex stations such as Bank&#x2F;Monument does) arguably increases the bandwidth of a station, since the bottleneck is almost always the ticket hall and barriers (which are difficult to expand without significant street-level work, for example at Tottenham Court Road and the Cannon Street ticket hall at Bank).