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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2013 18:23:47 GMT
The walking link from Walthamstow Queen's Road to Central has been part-constructed for months. But still no opening date has been announced. Does anyone on here know when it is due to be open?
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Post by londonstuff on Aug 8, 2013 19:00:48 GMT
What's the distance involved between the two? I'd often thought this might be a goer for Tube Challenge people (nope, I'm not into that but being able to run 26 miles perhaps I should be) but not living near that area I'm not really au fait with the possibilities, or not.
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Post by Chris M on Aug 8, 2013 19:32:29 GMT
As the crow flies, about 200 yards entrance to entrance. Current walking route, about ½ mile, see goo.gl/maps/TwMSK |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2013 21:34:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2013 3:44:54 GMT
This is becoming a very thorny issue for regulars on the GO-B Line. BGORUG has long campaigned for this link and after much argy-bargy with the housing association that owns the properties on the adjacent Exeter Close, it has finally been built. So far so good.
The construction work within the station is complete, and installation of Oyster readers and a second ticket machine is due at any time. One would hope that was all, BUT there are security issues, so not only TfL's CCTV is needed but also on steet cameras to ensure that the usual blurred and indescipheral mug shots of the local oiks can scrutinised if something is vandalised.
There is also some delay over the new path that will connect Exeter Close with Central Station due to the ongoing mega development of the station car park with new flats and a Travel-lodge type hotel.
Check out barking-gospeloak.org.uk for progress, if any. Estimated time of arrival could now be November! Watch this, or rather BGORUG's space!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2013 0:00:47 GMT
More hassles with this one! The new Ticket machine, alas not designed into the initial plans, will now need to be located on the public adopted highway, and this needs ... wait for it ... Planning Permission! HA! The oyster readers are being installed on the new structure, which is Railway land and as they are for railway purposes they can go in.
The planning permission for the Ticket Machine means that should go in during November at the earliest! And to add insult to injury the new footpath to Walthamstow Central station is now to take a different route due to the developments ongoing in the car park. So that could be well after Christmas by the time it is finished.
The words 'pi$$-up' and 'brewery' spring to mind ...... One day .... So there is slow progess and check it out at
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Edit 6/10 03.06. Thanks for that '81stock', to much nocturnal Blogging, not enough kip, and there was another typo. Perhaps with the state of Walthamstow C's car park, if there is not some progress soon, 'mudbath' may be more appropriate! R
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Post by Chris M on Oct 4, 2013 1:02:14 GMT
When it finally opens, you will need to note how long it took in centimetres per day or something like that and how long it takes to walk the path (and the old route) in the same units!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2013 17:28:08 GMT
And to add insult to injury the new footbath to Walthamstow Central station... Are they expecting another foot and mouth outbreak?  |
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Post by snoggle on Mar 27, 2014 17:14:19 GMT
LOROL said that they expect the new entrance to Queens Rd station to open "imminently" when the ticket machine is operational.
The link can only be opened when the hotel is finished and there is no date for that - still!
Reading between the lines I have a feeling TfL will open the new station entrance in advance of the link footpath to Walthamstow Central. Some people on the eastern side of the line near Queens Rd / Hoe St may benefit from a slightly faster access time.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2014 18:37:13 GMT
According to the Travelodge website the hotel will open in early June, so I suppose this loooooong awaited link will open around then.
It is a farce that the Edison Close entrance to the station is still not open, 6 months after the bridge was built...
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Post by rapidtransitman on Apr 5, 2014 20:31:57 GMT
The Tube Map should be updated to make this an interchange. It won't be useful for all transfers, Blackhorse Road being better, but some trips will be shorter with this new link. It should be advertised as such.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2014 14:49:03 GMT
An update from Glenn Wallis: blue.maxapex.net/apex/f?p=255:31:0::NO::P31_ID:376After playing "silly b*ggers" with the Council over the location of the Ticket Vending Machine (TVM), it has now been placed on the ramp down to the footbridge. The Council has installed CCTV in Edison Close, so once TVM supplier Shere has the TVM working there is no excuse not to opent the entrance. Sadly there is no sign of any work starting on the footpath, to be called Ray Dudley Way, between Edison Close and Walthamstow Central station. Glenn Wallis Secretary BGORUG |
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Post by melikepie on Apr 26, 2014 19:58:29 GMT
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Post by melikepie on Jun 30, 2014 3:33:16 GMT
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Post by snoggle on Jun 30, 2014 11:05:01 GMT
On their Twitter chat session last week London Overground said they couldn't give a date but that the issue was for the council to resolve. I'm not quite sure how that relates to a problem with the ramp at the station itself but hey ho it does look like work is being done albeit slowly. If we're not careful we'll run into the annual Summer holiday break issue with the workmen all going on holiday. |
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Post by ashlar on Jul 10, 2014 4:30:55 GMT
According to the User Group, the opening date for the link is now pencilled for August 11th.
Let's see...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 17:17:21 GMT
With one week to go for the scheduled 'soft' opening (ie without any pomp & circumstance - 'ribbon-cutting'?) the plan is still to remove the fencing next Monday, 11th. It remains to be seen whether this coincides with the morning peak when customers would have no other way of knowing they could have saved 5-8 minutes walking-time!, so much for Good PR, or just in readiness for the evening peak.
Let's just see what staff instructions or guidance is on the arrival of trains if the fencing is removed.
The direction signage on the overbridge has of course, already carried the new(sic) signage for Edison Way exit since 1st December 2013, following a brief appearance for alert photographer's pasted labels hastily covered that up within days after the first aborted opening. Also noticed along the whole length of the road network and footpath link to the car park are at least 5 cctv installations. Does anybody know for certain who is in charge of operations? will they work and be watched during all train operating periods? and whether they will start on 'soft' opening date of 11th August, or the later official date for September?
Apologies if anyone has covered the effective date I have recorded on film of the first appearance on site: 19th April, 2011 when iniitial embankment clearance began for the new ramped exit.
The whole debacle however, beginning as far back as the Planning Application before LBWF in 1995:/0932 which required the housing estate developer to lay-in a pedestrian link to Walthamstow Central. Who will ever know if there was a conspiracy to let it go by unseen? Lately there have been problems with archived council papers being 'found' to have been stored in the asbestos covered sub-basement causing them to be un-retrievable.
The original clause re-appeared somewhat strangely in 2004:/1189, when the removal of such a planning obligation was requested. Excellent representation by the User's Group I believe put a stop to that, and here we are today 20-odd years later. Doesn't time fly when you're enjoying yourself?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 17:43:36 GMT
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Post by miff on Aug 5, 2014 7:24:28 GMT
What is wrong with it? Seems perfectly readable to me. I say abolish the death penalty.
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Post by superteacher on Aug 5, 2014 7:30:49 GMT
Comic Sans is my favourite font. I use it for all of my school stuff, apart from anything too formal.
May check out this new link when it opens to see if it has been worth the wait!
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Aug 5, 2014 11:59:23 GMT
What is wrong with it? Seems perfectly readable to me. I say abolish the death penalty. I vote for the retention of the death penalty for use or promotion of the font in question and it's extension to the one my wife forces me to download for her every time she gets a new school laptop, namely Sassoon Primary Infant. Did I ever mention keelhauling for unnecessary shortened derivations of the District line route between Edgware Road and Wimbledon?...............  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 12:07:50 GMT
WIMBLEWARE
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Aug 6, 2014 8:09:49 GMT
Sorry, I missed that.........  |
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Post by rincew1nd on Aug 6, 2014 19:46:45 GMT
Ahem, on topic please.
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Post by ashlar on Aug 7, 2014 21:39:32 GMT
Indeed! It might actually open this coming Monday. (Not holding my breath) |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2014 16:42:42 GMT
The link is now open throughout. The car park section to Ray Dudley Way was open by at least 9am this morning and the station link onto the ramp was open in time for evening peak. There was no signage in place to say passengers were informed of the opening.
Rejoice anyway! Don't forget those who after the 1994 clause to put a link in place was 'forgotten'didn't allow it to be swept aside, and when in 2004 an application was made to bin the whole idea of a link being revived - once again did not permit that to go through on-the-nod.
There are no reports though whether the Oyster readers or cctv are fully working
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Post by ashlar on Aug 12, 2014 10:15:40 GMT
The new interchange is great. Interchange time between Chingford line and GOBLIN is now shorter than between tube lines at several stations (e.g. Bank / KX). This will make a huge difference, for those changing between those lines and for local residents.
Questions should be asked as to why this wasn't opened last year (or indeed long before - the main infrastructure change in creating Ray Dudley Way was the removal of a fence!), but let's be happy it has finally happened and grateful to all the campaigners who have fought for this since the 1990s!
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Post by ashlar on Aug 12, 2014 10:24:37 GMT
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Post by melikepie on Aug 12, 2014 11:45:31 GMT
I wonder if the new link will mean that the stations will become an official interchange on the tube map rathern than just OSI
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Post by ashlar on Aug 12, 2014 13:49:31 GMT
I predict that this will happen in May 2015...
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