When it became clear that the Crossrail 2 project would not see the light of day, at least for the time being, SAT Group focussed its attentions more closely upon possible smaller wins for transport infrastructure improvements. Such an opportunity came about as part of the proposal put forward for “Turning South London Orange” (TSLO) by the Centre for London think tank. The suggestions that were discussed at that time were to seek a high frequency overground train service (6 tph+) for our part of South London that had already been implemented across other orange lines across London by TfL. Such a strategy would then have been assisted further by a Streatham Interchange being created, in order to improve connectivity between the three Streatham stations.
SAT Group has not lost sight of the huge improvements that such a Streatham Interchange would bring about for leading to such an increase in train numbers and will refocus its attentions on this as an area for pro-activity in the months ahead.
Smaller wins achieved for Streatham
• SAT Group has also held discussions with Network Rail in order to try to bring forward the date when Streatham station’s long-awaited accessibility project – ie for one or more lifts to be installed at the station – would be progressed as a direct result of lobbying by both SAT Group and the Green Party in particular. It has recently been confirmed that work on constructing two lifts at Streatham station will now be taking place in to 2022.
• SAT Group has for long worked alongside the impressively determined Safer A23 Group to lobby TfL to prioritise a c.£9.2m reconfiguration of the A23 between Streatham Hill station and the South Circular. Subject only to sufficient monies being agreed upon in TfL’s upcoming negotiation round with the government in December this year, this reconfiguration work will then likely receive the final go ahead in to the autumn of next year and beyond.
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