Lobbying group the Campaign for Better Transport has thrown its weight behind a plan to build a light rail line through the heart of a major north London development.
The £4bn Brent Cross Cricklewood scheme has been drawn up to regenerate the area surrounding the 1970s built Brent Cross shopping centre and would provide 27,000 new jobs and 7,500 new homes. Although the developers would pay for a new station on the Midland Mainline/Thameslink rail route, CfBT says this, along with the existing Brent Cross London Underground station, would be situated on the periphery of the development area and provide insufficient public transport links.
Instead, the CfBT wants a new light rail line to be constructed to connect and improve access to the existing Brent Cross Tube station and the planned new National Rail station. This would provide a public transport spine through the development from the existing shopping centre to the new residential and commercial district on the other side of the North Circular Road. It could then continue south to Park Royal, linking large parts of Barnet, Brent and Ealing, using existing underused railway lines and connecting the Northern, Central, Jubilee, Piccadilly and Bakerloo Tube lines, the London Overground rail network and mainline rail services.
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The £4bn Brent Cross Cricklewood scheme has been drawn up to regenerate the area surrounding the 1970s built Brent Cross shopping centre and would provide 27,000 new jobs and 7,500 new homes. Although the developers would pay for a new station on the Midland Mainline/Thameslink rail route, CfBT says this, along with the existing Brent Cross London Underground station, would be situated on the periphery of the development area and provide insufficient public transport links.
Instead, the CfBT wants a new light rail line to be constructed to connect and improve access to the existing Brent Cross Tube station and the planned new National Rail station. This would provide a public transport spine through the development from the existing shopping centre to the new residential and commercial district on the other side of the North Circular Road. It could then continue south to Park Royal, linking large parts of Barnet, Brent and Ealing, using existing underused railway lines and connecting the Northern, Central, Jubilee, Piccadilly and Bakerloo Tube lines, the London Overground rail network and mainline rail services.
http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/story.php?id=4681