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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2016 21:50:26 GMT
You're trying to have your cake and eat it- complaining of high house prices 'and' more housing being built! London needs loads of new homes for all pockets! Thankfully every serious Mayoral candidate recognises that! It It is also regrettable that you pepper your comments with emotive phrases such as 'land grab' and 'greedy developers'. Try 'house builders' - much the same today as the people who (probably) built your home. I'm sorry you don't like my tone but I am not at all happy about the state of housing and development in London. It's gone mad in recent years and it is largely out of step with the needs of ordinary people on average wages. It is also partly designed on the unstated premise of ghettoisation - only rich people can afford to live in the newest / best developments. The current market is unsustainable - something will give at some point and there will be a very costly correction. I believe we need a publicly funded programme of housing investment that is then available at genuinely affordable rents. That is the only way, short of a massive housing market crash, that essential workers will be able to afford to settle and live in decent mixed communities. Cities only work properly with a proper viable social and economic mix. I believe London has prospered over many generations because it has broadly worked to those principles. I believe recent and current policies are possibly leading us in the opposite direction as poor people are shoved out of inner London leading to all sorts of issues - including significant transport challenges. I have yet to see any joined up policy thinking about how to start to deal with those existing challenges never mind those we face in the future. Not much to object to in the overall thrust of your post, although 'almost' every sentence is capable of challenge, which I don't propose to do! However, we must recognise that the landscape has changed since the last election and subsidies are flowing from rental accommodation to home ownership. Is it really true that people are being moved out of inner London, which I think of as zones 1-3? The evidence is thin. To come back to transport, in - what seems to be - your neck of the woods. My personal view is that projects such as STAR and Crossrail 2 are actually partly designed to transport the below-average waged to the 'central activity zone'. I further suspect that the great majority of the massive amount of new homes will be in the 'affordable' range. Red-trousered Fulhamites will be thin on the ground. |
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Post by superteacher on Jan 7, 2016 22:09:31 GMT
Mod comment: This one is drifting again. Please stick to discussion about Lea Bridge and STAR rather than the history and merits or otherwise of the area. Ta.
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Post by patrickb on Jan 8, 2016 19:27:54 GMT
I wasn't to try start an argument, my comment was only that re-opening Lea Bridge Station was a good idea and I'm glad it's going to happen. It could have an impact on the area, and redevelopment of that area is always an option that however unfeasible, will be explored.
As for Transport Links, the station would be beneficial for people living in Whipps Cross, Lower Clapton and part of Leyton where fast direct Transport to Stratford does not exist.
The Hall Farm Curve could also be reinstated to provide Overground links from Chingford to Stratford via Lea Bridge.
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Post by stapler on Jan 8, 2016 22:18:50 GMT
PatrickB I agree re the reopening, and the Hall Farm Jc line, but I do wonder why anyone in Whipps Cross or Lower Clapton would go 2 miles out of the way to get to Stratford.
Lea Bridge Station's heyday ended in 1872, when it ceased to be the railhead for Walthamstow after the Hall Fm-Clapton Jc line opened. Since then it's always been in the middle of nowhere, except for the speedway, greyhound track, Clapton Orient, and the industrial estate and gasworks. Even in the 50s, when the Chingford-Southend excursions stopped there, "no-one went and no-one came, on the bare platform".
If it's to succeed, then regeneration will have to take place, and with the current dearth of housing in London, I strongly suspect the remaining industry and warehousing will find it lucrative to sell out for flats.
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Post by miff on Jan 10, 2016 12:04:13 GMT
Many of the industrial units in Burwell Rd and Wellington Rd, next to Lea Bridge Station, have been sold and a Poncey Flats development (including a proportion of Affordable Poncey Flats) is proposed.
Meanwhile work on connecting the electricity supply to the new station started yesterday so we might see the lights on soon.
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Post by stapler on Jan 13, 2016 8:36:30 GMT
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Post by melikepie on Jan 28, 2016 18:27:11 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2016 20:56:35 GMT
That's good to hear. I can't wait for it to open, but I still struggle to see what developments can be around it. It's in quiet an isolated and awkward place to enable developments. I also don't see why services such as the Stansted Express needs to stop there in the future. It would be a slight inconvenience to the through passengers there. |
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Post by stapler on Jan 28, 2016 22:19:27 GMT
With development land being at such a premium, and housing so difficult to get, I don't see it being a failure
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Post by snoggle on Mar 8, 2016 17:00:41 GMT
Looks like Lea Bridge Station could open from the start of the May timetable. Times show up on Open Train Times from Sunday 15 May 2016 after about 2000. There are engineering works earlier in the day affecting Stratford - T Hale services.
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Post by stapler on Mar 8, 2016 17:55:34 GMT
Yes, passed it yesterday. Looked to me as if the finishing was being done.
A great pity there is no exit to the bridge near the bus stops. Since LB was the first bridgh-accessed station anywhere, i think we are not learning the lessons on 176 years ago!
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Post by snoggle on Mar 8, 2016 22:20:33 GMT
Yes, passed it yesterday. Looked to me as if the finishing was being done. A great pity there is no exit to the bridge near the bus stops. Since LB was the first bridgh-accessed station anywhere, i think we are not learning the lessons on 176 years ago! Haven't been down there in a while but I agree that the lack of bridge access is bizarre. The DLR station at Abbey Road has a nice direct access off the main road as well as a side entrance for the houses nearby. Don't know the same couldn't have been done for Lea Bridge as I think it will be an unstaffed station so ungated - again just like the DLR. |
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Post by peterc on Mar 9, 2016 0:13:41 GMT
IIRC there were concerns about vehicles stopping to pick up and set down in Lea Bridge Road.
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Post by Chris M on Mar 9, 2016 11:21:09 GMT
That seems like the sort of thing streetscape design and parking/loading restrictions can resolve?
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Post by stapler on Mar 9, 2016 11:34:19 GMT
It is a bit tight, I agree, but the bus stop is there anyway. A pity they have given rail users the hike round Argall - just as inconvenient as most of the Goblin stations, and they were planned in 1893.
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Post by miff on Mar 9, 2016 22:59:59 GMT
The pavements are a bit narrow at the moment and partly blocked with temporary barriers, due to structural defects, but the bridge is going to be widened and strengthened so that decent width footways and cycle lanes can be provided. A bike shed for the station is now being built in Argall Way. I don't know if they're relocating any bus stops but I suppose they might, there is so much changing on the whole length of Lea Bridge Road. But I guess there would still not be enough width on the bridge for a station plaza as well - the last thing you would want is crowds of people (and there may be crowds eventually) spilling out of a station gate on the bridge straight onto the A104. The Argall Way/Orient Way junction layout will also be simplified, converted from its present unusual layout into a more conventional crossroads.
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Post by snoggle on Mar 11, 2016 19:01:01 GMT
I had a wander down to Lea Bridge station today. Decent amount of progress from the last time I went past on a train. Platforms are 8 carriages long – a passing train confirmed this! The platforms have nosing stones and lamp standards and shelters in place. I expect they will be surfaced shortly. The stairs, overbridge and lift towers are all built and certainly the bridge and stairs are usable. Hard to see what state the lifts are in but they look as if they are installed. The entrance is largely in place in terms of a long “Z” ramp for level access plus two shallow staircases. There isn’t much in terms of structure for the “ticket hall” yet but I dare say that will be one of the last bits. Didn’t have my camera so no snaps. The hoardings all have paintings and pictures done by local school children extolling the virtues of train travel and the new station.
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Post by snoggle on Mar 23, 2016 19:09:28 GMT
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Post by Dom K on Apr 1, 2016 10:36:55 GMT
An update
Things added
Tv screens for the driver at the end of the southbound platform.
CCTV cameras (for the driver screens) installed on both platforms.
Erection of more lighting and the post for the DVIs
Lifts look look almost complete
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Post by snoggle on Apr 25, 2016 15:16:34 GMT
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Post by Dom K on Apr 25, 2016 15:23:25 GMT
Just to add to snoggle's post On my way in to work today, I noticed that the Stop markets had been fitted and the driver CCTV screens were on as the train past. No station name signage that I could see. |
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Post by stapler on Apr 25, 2016 16:17:07 GMT
"A new Leyton village"; does that mean an ultra-high density development?
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Post by Dom K on Apr 27, 2016 19:40:14 GMT
Trains are now practicing stopping/slowing down for Lea Bridge. The platform DVIs now say "Welcome to Lea Bridge Station"
It's also timed as a stopping station from Monday 16th May
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Post by Dom K on May 13, 2016 19:38:54 GMT
Lea Bridge is complete and opens for full service Monday (with some evening services on Sunday evening)
It's nice to see the station lights which are LED white.
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Post by Antje on May 15, 2016 20:54:00 GMT
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Post by snoggle on May 15, 2016 22:09:03 GMT
Well done on the photo. Are those the first scheduled trains after 2000? I ask because it looks very light for the time of day. I'll go and take a look tomorrow. |
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Post by vinnielo on May 16, 2016 14:58:01 GMT
This is my video contribution.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 15:17:14 GMT
Hi there I am new to this forum, so please bear with me.
Does anyone have any update on work to 3/4 track part of the Lea Valley Line, to the North of Lea Bridge station.
I keep looking for info about the STAR project but can hardly find anything on the web.
Is it definitely going ahead and does it have a likely completion date.
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Post by phil on May 16, 2016 16:16:23 GMT
Hi there I am new to this forum, so please bear with me. Does anyone have any update on work to 3/4 track part of the Lea Valley Line, to the North of Lea Bridge station. I keep looking for info about the STAR project but can hardly find anything on the web. Is it definitely going ahead and does it have a likely completion date. Lea Bridge station reopening is a completely separate thing to the STAR project (though there is obviously some synergy between the two), because it could be served to the existing Stratford terminators and required no significant infrastructure works away from the station itself. The proposed 3 / 4 tracking plan starts at Tottenham Hale - quite some distance away from Lea Bridge station and after the line from Clapton has joined the line from Stratford. At the moment it is still just a proposal though - IIRC the final details / financing / of the scheme have yet to be finalised, so it will be some time before workers will appear on the ground. Thus you are realistically looking at somewhere around 2020ish at the earliest before it could be up and running. |
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Post by norbitonflyer on May 16, 2016 16:53:50 GMT
This is my video contribution. Both trains have Anglia branding, but have different coloured doors. Why is this? |
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