Greenwich and Lewisham’s Tory candidate for the London Assembly has started a petition to push TfL into progressing with the Bakerloo Line extension – but his Labour rival says the government should get on with safeguarding the route. Charlie Davis, who is also a Greenwich councillor for Eltham North, launched the petition yesterday after TfL […]
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Bakerloo Line: Stop playing games with TfL funding, Lewisham mayor tells government
Lewisham’s elected mayor and the leader of Southwark Council have accused the government of “game-playing” over Transport for London’s finances after it emerged that TfL did not prioritise the Bakerloo line extension when asking for Whitehall funding this week. TfL is proposing to extend the Bakerloo line from Elephant & Castle to Lewisham via two new stops on the Old Kent […]
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TfL cash crisis: DLR to Thamesmead in doubt but Greenwich and Lewisham cycle schemes go ahead
Plans to extend the Docklands Light Railway to Thamesmead have been cast into doubt by Transport for London’s financial crisis, with the authority’s finance chiefs warning that it may not be able to afford to build the £800 million transport link. TfL’s board will be told next week that it cannot afford to build all […]
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TfL bailout: Bakerloo Line to Lewisham can’t be guaranteed, deputy mayor says
The proposed extension of the Bakerloo Line to Lewisham cannot be guaranteed as Transport for London reels from the financial pressure heaped upon it by the coronavirus pandemic, Sadiq Khan’s deputy mayor for transport has revealed in a letter to a Greenwich councillor. Eltham North councillor Charlie Davis, who is also standing as a Conservative candidate […]
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Sainsbury’s scraps 33-storey New Cross development on Bakerloo Line site
Plans for over 1,000 flats in New Cross that could have got in the way of the planned Bakerloo Line extension have been abandoned by developers. TfL is planning to extend the line from Elephant and Castle to Lewisham via Old Kent Road and New Cross Gate. But A2Dominion and Mount Anvil, along with Sainsbury’s, applied to build a new […]
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We still don’t want Bakerloo Line extension to Hayes, Bromley Council leader insists
The Conservative leader of Bromley Council has doubled down on his authority’s opposition to a potential extension of the Bakerloo Line to Hayes, saying Bromley town centre needs additional transport capacity instead. Colin Smith’s comments came after Labour councillors asked if he had ignored feedback from local residents who supported an extension of the line. […]
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TfL rules out St John’s station for Bakerloo Line Lewisham extension
Transport for London says it does not plan to build an extra station at St John’s on its planned extension of the Bakerloo Line to Lewisham. It is also ruling out building a station on Lewisham Way as part of the proposals, saying that existing plans to build stations at New Cross Gate and Lewisham […]
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Greenwich Council backing Bakerloo Line to Lewisham
Greenwich Council has joined the chorus of south London councils supporting an extension of the Bakerloo Line to Lewisham, Catford and Hayes, its counterparts in Lewisham heard last night. Lewisham’s elected mayor Sir Steve Bullock rubber-stamped his council’s backing for TfL’s scheme at a cabinet meeting, endorsing a report urging transport bosses to act quickly […]
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