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Crossrail 2

Wimbledon Local Engagement meeting Thursday 29 January 2015

Crossrail 2 – What is it?

• Cost: around £27bn
• Very high capacity
• 250m long trains with capacity for
• ver 45,000 persons/hour, per

direction

• Up to 30 trains per hour in each

direction

• Construction could start in 2020, with

the scheme open around 2030

• Joint TfL/Network Rail partnership
• Scheme construction will be similar to

Crossrail 1

• A brand new railway line, serving south-west to north-east London

through central London

• The 36km central core will be tunnelled, outside this it will run on

existing and widened railway lines

Crossrail 2 – What is it?

The potential route and stations

Crossrail 2 – Why we need it

Crossrail 2 will allow London and the UK to meet its growth needs

Greater London is growing quickly. Its population will increase by around 20% to reach more than 10 million by 2030 Without Crossrail 2 congestion levels

• n the network would be beyond those

experienced today & the growth of some areas could be constrained

Crossrail 2 – Why we need it

Crossrail 2 is needed to allow London’s economy to strengthen and facilitate new homes and jobs

Employees per km (all jobs)

Crossrail 2 could unlock the development of up to 200,000 new homes and support more than 200,000 new jobs Transport investment underway will deal with today's growth but will not address the challenges of 2030 and beyond

In summer 2013, we consulted on the project to:

• Understand general support for Crossrail 2
• Identify public preferences for metro or

regional option In summer 2014, we consulted again on specific route options:

• Route alignments and stations in the

Hackney/Haringey Area

• Options for a station (or no station) in

Chelsea

• An extension of the route from Alexandra

Palace to New Southgate

Consultation 2013 and 2014

Large amount of support for the scheme: Above 80% support across both consultations

• Borough residents will see benefits from

Crossrail 2 including:

– Significant relief of the rail network – new

capacity to relieve the South West Trains and Southern Railway networks and Northern and District Tube lines in Merton

– Upgraded stations – Wimbledon is a key interchange

and other NR stations will be improved

– Faster and easier journeys – direct and fast

services to central London, the West End and North London, eg: Wimbledon to Tottenham Court Road could be approx 12 minutes faster than today

Merton – Benefits

London Transport Division

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The Government’s position on Crossrail 2

• Ministers recognise that Crossrail 2 might be needed in future, and so decided to

consult on updating the existing safeguarding direction

• Ministers have said that Crossrail 2 will only go ahead if it is affordable to the

taxpayer

• A detailed study into how Crossrail 2 might be funded and financed was

published in November 2014. It is available at www.crossrail2.co.uk/funding

• The next Government will decide whether to progress Crossrail 2, and will

consider it alongside other potential major transport infrastructure projects.

• The DfT and Crossrail 2 team are working together on this to inform a decision at the

Spending Review later this year.

London Transport Division

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The recent Crossrail 2 safeguarding consultation

• Safeguarding is an established part of the planning process, designed to ensure

that land identified for major infrastructure projects is protected from conflicting developments

• Safeguarding directions are the responsibility of central Government – which is why

the recent consultation was a Government consultation

• Once safeguarding is in place, planning authorities need to consult Transport for

London on planning applications within the safeguarded zone

• Safeguarding is not the same as planning permission: if a decision is taken to

proceed with Crossrail 2, planning permission would be sought in the usual way, either through a Parliamentary process or through a “development consent order”.

• The safeguarding consultation ran from 20 November to 28 January
• The Department is due to publish a summary of the responses to the consultation

and to decide on next steps in March

London Transport Division

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What sort of things were covered by the recent consultation?

In scope (speak to DfT)

• Specific concerns regarding

the impact of the safeguarding

• Property, land or planned

development that could be affected

• Is an area of land, or

particular building, earmarked that is valued by the community?

Out of scope (speak to TfL)

• general route/station site queries
• benefits of Crossrail 2
• train frequency
• impact and timing of construction
• How particular buildings or areas
• f land will be used during the

construction phase

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Safeguarding

The previously safeguarded alignment has changed

Wimbledon – Clapham Junction via Tooting Broadway Proposed extension to New Southgate Angel to Tottenham Hale and Seven Sisters via Dalston Junction A potential branch from Angel to Hackney, which could form part of a future eastern branch New portal location proposed just south of Tottenham Hale station Victoria to Angel via Tottenham Court Road and Euston St Pancras

P revious C urrent

Safeguarding

• Covers tunnelled section and associated infrastructure only
• Land falls into 3 categories:
• Areas of subsurface interest – a corridor about 100 metres wide for

bored tunnels (the tunnels would be between 20 – 40 metres deep, rising to the surface at portals)

• Areas of surface interest – areas where construction from the

surface may be needed (e.g. station entrances, tunnel portals)

• Not affected
• 110,500 properties and key stakeholders, political representatives and

business groups have received:

• Crossrail 2 general information – letter and leaflet
• DfT consultation letter

Safeguarding

Safeguarding does

• require planning

authorities to consult TfL on applications within the limits identified

• provide a planning

process for protecting a proposed project from significant conflicting development

• provide the

framework for planning the insertion of the new railway in the urban fabric

Safeguarding does not

• give permission to

build Crossrail 2

• authorise

compulsory acquisition of property

• prevent

development taking place

• guarantee a railway

will be built

• encompass all the

possible forms of development approval

• substitute for

further scheme consultation and development

Merton – Infrastructure

• Portal – where the tunnel will emerge above ground north
• f Wimbledon
• Redesigned Wimbledon station
• Changes to national rail stations south of Wimbledon
• Depot and stabling – using existing railway land where

possible

• Ventilation and emergency

access shafts proposed at Waterside Way

Mar 2015: Safeguarding Direction issued and report of safeguarding consultation published Phase 1 Develop a single preferred route option for public consultation Jan 2015 → Scheme design and appraisal advanced Autumn 2015 Detailed public consultation to help identify single preferred route option launched

What happens next – Phase 1

2016-2019 Single preferred option is finalised 2017-2020 Submit powers application 2020-2030 Construct and test Crossrail 2 By 2030 Crossrail 2 opens to the public

What happens next – Future phases

Website: Crossrail2.co.uk Email: crossrail2@tfl.gov.uk DfT safeguarding email: Crossrail2.Safeguarding@dft.gsi.gov.uk

More information

Wimbledon

Proposed line of route and area of surface interest: south of Wimbledon station (Dundonald Road area)

Wimbledon – cont.

Proposed line of route and area of surface interest: Wimbledon station

Wimbledon – cont.

Proposed line of route and area of surface interest: Gap Road tunnel portal and route to depot/stabling

Wimbledon – cont.

Proposed line of route and area of surface interest: Potential depot/stabling

Wimbledon – cont.

Proposed line of route and area of surface interest: Potential depot/stabling

Wimbledon – cont.

Proposed line of route and area of surface interest: Potential depot/stabling

Wimbledon – cont.

Proposed line of route and area of surface interest: Wimbledon – Tooting tunnel (Waterside Way ventilation shaft)

Wimbledon – cont.

Proposed line of route and area of surface interest: Wimbledon – Tooting tunnel (Waterside Way ventilation shaft)