Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Sydenham Road Improvement Scheme

A £4.7m scheme to improve Sydenham Road will be underway by August. Lewisham’s Mayor and Cabinet committee gave the go-ahead to the scheme on Wednesday evening (20 January), so now it’s down to the tendering and construction phases, starting with improvements to Station Approach. And the good news is that the eastern end of the high street – from Mayow Road to Kent House Road - is also included in the revamp. The scheme will work as follows:


Cobb’s Corner to Mayow Road

  • £3.6m scheme to improve the core section of the high street. 
  • This includes £310,000 to improve Sydenham Station Approach. 
  • At the recent public exhibition 957 people completed comment cards. In response to the question – Do you support the proposals overall? – 89% answered yes; 6% No; 5% don’t know and 1% gave no answer.


Mayow Road to Kent House Road
A £1.1m scheme to improve the 'lower' section of the high street.
Timetable:
  • 20 January 2010 – Both schemes to be approved by Lewisham Mayor and Cabinet.
  • March 2010 – List of tenderers agreed
  • May 2010 – Tenders issued
  • July 2010 – Tender evaluation results reported to Mayor and Cabinet
  • August 2010 – Work commences
  • November 2010 to Mid January 2011 – Minimal disruption works (side streets Station Approach etc)
  • August 2011 – Works completed Cobb’s Corner to Mayow Road
  • August 2011 to August 2012 – Works completed Mayow Road to Kent House Road

ELL to open on 23rd May!

It now seems virtually certain that the West Croydon/Crystal Palace leg of the line will launch on the 23rd May with the New Cross to Dalston section opening from the 4th April.
On the 18th January, the construction team on the ELL handed the line over to TfL. Now it’s down to TfL to complete the work of training staff, testing trains and making sure signalling systems work.
Travel times northwards to Canada water from Sydenham are as follows:
 

00:00:00 Canada Water
00:02:00 Surrey Quays
00:05:00 New Cross Gate
00:08:00 Brockley
00:11:00 Honor Oak Park
00:14:00 Forest Hill
00:16:30 Sydenham

Here is an update on what’s happening on our local

railway system:


• TfL has taken over local stations with a commitment to staff stations from 'first to last train'.
• At the end of 2010 no more direct trains to Charing Cross. 
• Oyster PAYG introduced 2nd January 2010. 
• May 23 2010 – major change to services: 
  – ELL commences (8tph from Dalston to Crystal P/
     West Croydon).
  – Off-peak and evening services to and from
     London Bridge reduced to 4 per hour
  – Loop line to Victoria starts early.
  – 6 tph to West Croydon
  – 6 tph service to East Croydon with interchange at

     Norwood Junction.
• By end 2010, all platforms along line extended to carry 10/12 carriage trains.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Welcome

As the new Chairman of the Thorpes Residents Association, welcome to the latest edition of the TRA newsletter in its new online form. We're hoping that we can get Thorpes news and events to you much more regularly and more conveniently in this digital form. So please sign up to the mailing list by sending your e-mail address to thorpes.mailinglist@googlemail.com so that we can notify you of new posts.     
Of course, if anyone would still like a printed version of featured news we would be happy to drop a copy through the door. Please let me know at my address on the foot of page two of the printed newsletter.
The TRA is based on the Thorpes Conservation area, and so following its extension I would like to welcome the residents of Earlsthorpe & Queensthorpe Mews to the membership.
Ian Davenport