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Ecobeard
It can only ever be a subjective judgement, but I think the ends are justifying the means.
London Bridge, King's Cross, Farringdon are stations (and whole districts of the city) to be proud of. They look great, preserve existing architecture, add walkable housing, and will probably out-last any problems they've caused. Even if that does take 100 years.
In every case they've added or improved space for cycling and walking. For example South of Blackfriars the new station has led to office development on Upper Ground which has repaved and widened pavements. I don't know if you ever tried to push a buggy down there in the old days, but it's amazing how much easier it is now.
At the same time they've generally removed parking, and road capacity, permanently from the city.
They might not solve every problem but can you think of many other cities that are using transport development to push more pedestrian friendly city planning on such a huge scale?