South East London to Get Orbitised and Oysterized

SallyB2
By SallyB2 Last edited 189 months ago

Last Updated 12 February 2009

South East London to Get Orbitised and Oysterized

1202.elon.jpg That’s Boris-speak for what is in fact a very exciting development in the transport world. Well, in the commuting life of South East Londoners it is anyway. The East London Line Phase Two extension has been approved. Geoff Hoon’s got his cheque book out. A development over which no-one in the know was holding their breath. CrossRail is sucking the life blood out of a lot of other London engineering projects, and has already been blamed for trashing the Cross River Tram, so plans for this extension were very much up in the air. The project will see the City and Islington and Surrey Quays joined up to Clapham via Brixton and Peckham. And it is this latter which will see the most benefit. Exclusive tho’ it is, Peckham would really quite like to be connected to the rest of London. This is all good.

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