Transport for LondonDeveloping the transport network
Skip to navigation << Back to indexTfL granted permission to DLR to proceed with in-depth planning for possible three-car running to cope with passenger growth between Lewisham and Bank. The project includes the purchase of new vehicles, lengthening platforms on the Tower Gateway to Lewisham route and strengthening viaducts.
Development of the East London Line project (ELL) continues. The extension is part of a wider package of transport infrastructure projects designed to support regeneration in East London and the wider Thames Gateway area - an area that will need to accommodate 255,000 jobs and 142,000 homes by 2016. ELL will be part of the overground network that will extend north to Highbury and Islington, south to West Croydon and west to Clapham Junction. New stations will be constructed at Surrey Canal Road, Shoreditch High Street, Hoxton, Haggerston and Dalston Junction.
The SRA strategic plan for 2003 suggested the ELL project could be delivered by 2008, however a year has been lost due to legal challenges. Regardless of this, the project could be delivered in time to support a successful Olympic Bid.
ELL is a key rail project for London, as is Crossrail, and TfL helped progress both as a 50/50 partner with the Strategic Rail Authority. An interim business case for the Crossrail project was developed and submitted to the Secretary of State for Transport in February 2002. Its approval will provide a much needed east/west link between Heathrow and Docklands and the Thames Gateway.
Consultation is also underway on the West London Tram scheme, running from Uxbridge to Shepherds Bush via Acton, Ealing, Hanwell and Southall town centres. TfL believes that a tram could provide faster and more reliable public transport in this heavily congested area of London as well as delivering environmental and social benefits.
Another development of the transport network now well underway is the Thames Gateway Bridge between Beckton and Thamesmead in East London. Once the main period of consultation ends, the Mayor will consider the views expressed and decide whether to go ahead. There would then follow a period of scrutiny either by Parliament or via a public inquiry before the final decision on whether or not to grant the necessary powers to build the bridge is made.
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