Probably the right decision. It's scary how many people go charging across that junction in a desperate bid to catch the train when they see one coming in.

My hunch is that street furniture at least makes people think more about the fact that it's a busy junction with green men crossing signs and all that. Take away the railings and maybe it just looks less like a structured crossing and more like the free-for-all some people already assume it to be. (It's bad enough with all the people who come out of David's Road or Devonshire Road and go dashing through the traffic to the station.)

But I'm no expert - I'm just someone who doesn't want to have a pedestrian as a Rolls-Royce style bonnet ornament on my car.