Dark underpass at Wiedikon station

The pedestrian underpass at Wiedikon station is the only way from the platforms across to the Birmensdorferstrasse side, and after dusk it is genuinely unpleasant. I counted the ceiling fittings last week: eleven in total, four of them working, and two of those flicker.

The result is a long dim tunnel with a bright patch at either end, which is about the worst arrangement possible — your eyes never adjust, and anybody standing in the middle section is effectively invisible until you are right next to them. Several people I have spoken to take the longer way over the bridge instead, which rather defeats the point of having built an underpass.

Replacing dead tubes is maintenance, not architecture. What would help beyond that is lighting the walls instead of only the floor, so the space reads as open rather than as a tube. At the moment the design lights the ground and leaves everything that matters in the dark.