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According to the story "New East London Line 'done by 2010'"

hyperlinked from http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/matters today,

16


November :



The [first stage of the] £900 million extension of the East London from
Hackney to Croydon will be finished within six years, the Mayor

announced

today.

London Mayor Ken Livingstone said the north-south leg of the line,

including


four new stations, would be ready two years ahead of the 2012 Olympics.

An east-west leg, between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction, will be

built

in a second phase. (See map below).

An estimated 50 million passengers will use the completed line. Without

the


extension, the current line would have carried 11.6 million people by

2011.


SNIP

On Friday the government transferred responsibility for the project from

the


Strategic Rail Authority to Transport for London. Work is due to start

next


year.

Phase one will lengthen the current line north to Dalston and south to

West


Croydon and Crystal Palace. Four new stations will be built in the

north:

Dalston Junction, Haggerston, Hoxton and Shoreditch High Street. (See

box

for details.)

Wapping and Rotherhithe stations will remain open. Their future have

been

under review due to safety concerns over many more passengers on the

line.

Extra emergency exits will now be built.

Phase two will connect the line westwards to Clapham Junction, with one

new


station at Surrey Canal Road. A further extension northwards will link
Dalston Junction to the North London Line stations at Canonbury and

Highbury


and Islington.

After phase one, 12 trains an hour will run from Dalston Junction to

Surrey


Quays, serving three routes to New Cross, Crystal Palace and West

Croydon.

When phase two is done, it will increase to 16 trains an hour in each
direction through the central station.

London's Transport Commissioner Bob Kiley said: "There will inevitably

be

some disruption as the work progresses, but the end result will deliver

much


needed transport improvements for both east and south London."


4:33pm today

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Crossposted to uk.railway newgroup

No announcement on whether a TOC or LUL would run the train service

though,

I note!

Is that up for discussion now that TfL are running the project?



Does it matter?

I suspect some people would prefer LU to run the services "in-house"
rather than a TOC, as LU would probably need less subsidy to do so.

--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London