SAT Group played a leading role in bringing together all interested parties in Streatham who are regular users of the trains at any one or more of our three train stations to check as to key improvements to the stations that they would like to see effected, with monies assigned by GTR specifically to make improvements at our three Streatham stations for the benefit of passengers. £90k was assigned to Streatham Station and £30k to each of Streatham Common and Streatham Hill stations. All of the works have recently been completed and have included aspects such as improved lighting, repainting and renovating of waiting rooms, the provision of additional seating on platforms and improvements to the appearance of the overbridges at each of Streatham and Streatham Common stations.
SAT Group continues to be at its most effective by not only working on a cross-party and non-party basis, but also by being seen to be the “go-to” civic transport group for Streatham. As a consequence of this, the group benefits from regular attendance at our meetings by TfL and LBL representatives and also, from time-to-time, GTR and Network Rail.
Over the past 7 years to date SAT Group has arranged many public meetings covering aspects surrounding:
• Crossrail 2 and our proactivity on promoting Streatham to become a CR2 station on the route map;
• A public meeting with senior GTR representatives at the height of the disruption to train services following on from a major timetable change in the summer of 2016. This was to lead to Streatham station being granted the highest level of Passenger Benefit Fund monies available to London stations.
Public meetings have been very well attended, not only as a result of the areas of focus chosen by SAT Group for transport improvements being seen to be important to many local people, but also on the back of the quality of the panels secured for those meetings.
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