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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

TfL favours Old Kent Road Bakerloo

Dec

2015

SE1 reports that TfL Commissioner Mike Brown has indicated a preference for the Bakerloo Line to be extended to Lewisham via the Old Kent Road, rather than Camberwell. Sounding exactly like a BC editorial on the subject, Brown writes:"The results of our work demonstrate that the preferred route option for a first phase is from Elephant ...

Boomerang plan to link Rotherhithe and Canary Wharf

Nov

2015

Only yesterday, Brockley Central was idly Tweeting that copying Copenhagen's newest bridge and aerial bike lane would have been a good way to get the Rotherhithe-Canary Wharf foot bridge project back on track. Today, architects ReForm revealed a much better idea - a boomerang bridge, which could be raised for tall ships but which would ...

New late night service planned for Lewisham DLR

Oct

2015

TfL's plan for light railway growth, which incorporates two new trains per hour on the ELL, also proposes late night services on the DLR, from 2021. They say:Night services on DLR are planned for 2021 after the Bank station upgrade works are complete, and the current franchise and City Greenwich Lewisham Railway Lewisham route contract ...

ELL: Two more trains each hour from 2018

Oct

2015

TfL has confirmed plans to introduce two more East London Line trains between Dalston and Crystal Palace from 2018, which would increase the frequency of ELL trains through Brockley at peak time from eight trains per hour to ten. The scheme to deliver a 25% capacity increase on the line has been necessitated by the phenomenal growth ...

TfL proposes changes to the A20 (Lewisham Way)

Oct

2015

Proposed changes to Lewisham WayTfL has launched a consultation about proposed changes to Lewisham Way, Loampit Hill and Loampit Vale. The proposals include a number of improvements, but also the world's most gratuitous "traffic smoothing" project. The key changes involve:Merging some of the existing pedestrian crossings along the A20 so crossings are more evenly spaced ...

TfL responds to Bakerloo consultation

Sep

2015

TfL has published its response to their public consultation about the southern extension of the Bakerloo Line. There are few surprises in their responses, but the tone of the document suggests that the project is definitely on, one way or another, with the 2030 the likely opening date.Perhaps most surprising is that there are actually ...

Crossy Road

Aug

2015

A copy of the stakeholder consultation document. Thanks to We Are SE3.TfL trying again to remove pedestrian crossings from Lewisham Way. Having withdrawn a bid to remove one crossing in 2011, it's now launched a consultation on the removal of two on the route between New Cross and Lewisham, to speed up car journey times. We ...

Almost useful – the night tube

Jun

2015

This is TfL's official map of the night tube service, starting in September. It skirts Greater Brockley, stopping at Canada Water.This will become slightly more useful if the night buses connecting that station (currently the subject of a consultation exercise) with Bellingham get expanded. It will get a lot more useful when the East London ...

Rail strike threatens train services [Strike cancelled]

May

2015

UPDATE: The strike's off after the union got a pay dealJust in time for the bank holiday, TfL says:Network Rail unions have called 48 hours of country-wide industrial action on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 May. If the strike goes ahead, it will affect Southern rail services on Monday, Tuesday and into Wednesday morning.No Transport ...

Bakerloo consultation produces massive yes vote

Mar

2015

TfL has published the results of its recent consultation about the proposed southern extension of the Bakerloo Line via Lewisham. It found that:- The vast majority of South East Londoners want it to happen (96% of respondents)- There is an overwhelming consensus that South East London is relatively poorly served by public transport- That the ...