Evening Standard

London Future

Transport

Transport

Transport is critical to the city’s sustained success. London’s transport network will need to meet the challenge of increased demand for travel caused by the forecast growth in the economy, population and employment.

Transport projects aim to increase the accessibility to many areas of London, below are some of the proposed projects that will change London’s transport infrastructure forever:

  • London Overground is a new orbital rail service for London which will bring new standards in surface rail to Londoners and commuters. It will launch in November 2007 when transport for London takes over the North London Line. In 2011, it will connect with the East London Railway – the old East London Tube line upgraded, extended south to West Croydon and north to Highbury Islington and converted to heavy rail use.


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  • Phase 1 of the East London Line, scheduled for completion in 2010, will significantly enhance the accessibility of inner east London and improve the capacity of the inner orbital network.


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  • Thameslink 2000, scheduled for completion on a phased basis by 2012, will serve a north-south axis allowing more through services and longer trains, connections to Gatwick and Luton airports, an interchange with Crossrail at Farrindgdon and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link international and domestic services at Kings Cross/St Pancras.


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  • The proposed Crossrail project, will provide the essential additional capacity through the City, West End, Canary Wharf and westwards to Heathrow Airport to sustain the continued success of the financial and business services concentration in central London, support strategic regeneration priorities like City East, and help rejuvenate the West End.


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  • The Stratford International extension will convert the North London line and create a new DLR route from Royal Victoria to Stratford International using the existing North London line tracks.
  • The DLR is also being extended by more than 25 per cent, including a 2.5km extension under the River Thames from King George V to Woolwich Arsenal and a 6km extension to Stratford International from Canning Town.


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  • The Jubilee is to have a new signalling system installed, improving train frequency and increasing capacity by 25%.
  • A further £4bn of improvements are currently underway on the tube network
  • Heathrow’s T5 will be able to handle an additional 30 million passengers per year, taking the airport’s total to over 90 million passengers.


St Pancras Station


  • The redevelopment of St Pancras is an £800 million architectural restoration and extension of a unique London landmark. When the station first opened in 1868 William Barlow's train shed was a spectacular feat of Victorian engineering and held the world record for the largest enclosed space for many years.The masterplan for the extension to St Pancras was originally created by Sir Norman Foster, and has since been developed by RLE's Chief Architect Alistair Lansley. The glass extension has been designed to house the extra long Eurostar trains in their new home.The completion of St Pancras is just one small part of the £6 billion project High Speed 1 (formerly known as the CTRL) and just the beginning of redevelopment and regeneration of the King's Cross area.


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