Area Forum: Isleworth & Brentford

Georgina Barretta, Borough Engagement Mgr - West

May 2013

1 1. Business Plan – Key Themes

Tube upgrade – Fleet, track & Continue to renew the core assets. Northern line, sub-surface lines, Deep signals, stations Tube Programme Road network upgrade Essential repair, removal of road pinchpoints. Doubling of planned spending over the next 10 years from £1.9bn to £3.8bn Crossrail 1 Tunnelling, stations, rolling stock procurement, step-free access Crossrail 2 Funding depending Rail capacity upgrades Overground upgrade, Tramlink, DLR

Rail and Tube reliability Investment to improve reliability by 30 per cent Bus services and New Bus for London, bus station renewal infrastructure

Major extensions Northern line extension, Silvertown tunnel, ferry Cycling Additional £640m over next 10 years, on top of £273m previously identified Accessibility A further 28 step-free stations Greenford, Ealing Broadway, Bank, Paddington, Elephant & Castle, TfL–zone Crossrail stations

Growth Areas £300m to improve transport infrastructure key areas to accelerate development and provide catalyst leading to thousands more homes and jobs. Part of the Roads Task Force programme. Climate £90m for TfL for 600 more hybrid buses and cleaner energy supply for the Tube.

TfL Planning 2 Business Plan – Government Funding 2014-15+

• Fully funded plan up to 2014-15.

• Leaner, faster, cheaper. 10 year programme of improvements required. TfL (Transport for London) to lobby DfT (Department for Transport) for steady stream of Government funding after 2014/15. £2bn/year to 2022 required to plan effectively.

• Savings and efficiencies is one of the largest in the public sector. £7.6bn saved. A further £9.8bn savings secured by 2017-18

• Demand for rail travel in London to exceed capacity by 2031 even with significant additional rail and Tube capacity.

• Buses: most-used public transport, 50% public transport journeys = 2.3bn journeys a year.

• 30% tube, DLR and national rail either start/followed by a bus trip.

TfL Planning 3 A4 Pedestrian Crossings Achieved Future Clayponds Avenue and Windmill Road Junction with A4 Adjusted the signal timings so no traffic is Provide a signal controlled pedestrian crossing on approaching pedestrian crossing on the the north arm in Spring 2014* eastbound exit arm Improved visibility of the signals Update all existing signal equipment, alter signal layout and change signal timings Cleaned signal heads to make them more Requires traffic modelling to assess the impact visible to drivers the changes will have on all arms of the junction

Made stop line more visible and provided Improve visibility of the existing pedestrian additional stopping distance for those crossings; who mistakenly run through the red lights replace all A4 signal heads to providing; provide additional signal head at pedestrian crossings; relocating an existing signal head Changed the signal controller in order to move pedestrian push buttons further away from reduce the length of time pedestrians kerb edge have to wait to cross over the A4 Changed the signal controller in order to reduce the length of time pedestrians have to wait to cross over the A4 TfL Planning A4 Pedestrian Crossings

Ealing Road, Lionel Road and the pedestrian crossing near to Brook Lane To improve signal visibility: Replace signal heads . Add additional signal heads Move push buttons further from edge for those not on signal head poles

Signal modernisation

Plan to fully modernise the traffic signal equipment at the same time as junction works.

Brought forward by a couple of years so that we can minimise disruption to the road network by carrying out all work at once.

Funded by TfL and will improve the efficiency of the signals.

Establishing new timescales for the works after changing highway contractor.

TfL Planning Accessibility

Inclusion London and Transport for All appointed to improve training given to LU staff in to assist older and disabled customers:

• Centres of excellence = exemplars for how TfL can best assist disabled customers: centres in Stratford, King’s Cross St Pancras, London Bridge, Green Park and Westminster stations

• Significant improvements to signage have now been completed at 11 stations, developed in conjunction with disabled people, provides better information about how best to navigate stations

• A new Twitter feed @TfLAccess has been launched to give advice on getting the most out of the transport network, update disabled passengers on improvements to their services and to advise customers of any planned changes on the network – such as to lifts, escalators or stations - that may affect their journey

• A world-leading customer information system has now been introduced on the entire Victoria line. For the first time this gives give real-time disruption information to help people with hearing loss who may miss announcements from the driver.

TfL Planning Accessibility

Other commitments made in ‘Your Accessible Transport Network’ include:

• Over the next eight years 27 more Underground and London Overground stations will be made step-free • Large-scale accessibility improvements are already underway at Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Victoria and other locations • A further 80 wide aisle gates have been installed at 60 Tube stations, and the number of platform humps is being increased to provide level access at a third of stations by 2016 • An additional £18m is being invested to make at least 95 per cent of bus stops accessible by the end of 2016, bringing even greater ease to a bus network that is already the most accessible in the country • We are working with developers to produce apps that make our real-time information for the networks accessible, particularly for people with sight loss, and motor and learning disabilities • All newly-built Crossrail stations will have step-free access, and every London borough with a Crossrail station will have at least one with step-free access • Crossrail, opening in 2018, will unlock the West End with step-free stations at Paddington, Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road.

TfL Planning Piccadilly Line

the single greatest carrier of passengers through the busy west end section – relies on trains that are entering their fifth decade and signalling that dates back to the 1960s.

• ...upgrade To meet rising demand whilst taking advantage of the best innovations available to us, we need: - completely new trains and signalling to provide significant reliability and capacity benefits - larger fleet of trains, lighter and more energy efficient and incorporating air-cooling

Obsolete PPP contracts + change in the funding position over the past 5 years = original timescales impracticable.

• ..... and the DfT Piccadilly, Bakerloo, Central and Waterloo & City lines – not under the current plan. Procurement programme of new stock and signalling system/s remains at an early stage of development . Delivery is likely to take place from the middle part of the 2020s.

Before advanced preparations for these new trains and signalling assets – with an expected 40 year lifespan – taken, funding must first be secured!!!!

• In the meantime, TfL is managing the line’s ageing assets carefully, with targeted investment to maintain the assets, sustain the line’s excellent record of performance and continuous work to improve to boost reliability as part of the co- ordinated Tube reliability plan.

• ....and Hounslow Council Phil O’Hare (Picc line GM) met LBH 18 March at the Council’s request to discuss the borough’s interest in the Piccadilly line and what they could do to support TfL in making the case for sustained and continued funding (to ensure the Piccadilly line upgrade can take place) from Government,

Follow up meeting with Hounslow’s Head of Transport, Chris Calvi-Freeman recently to talk through the current funding position in full and discuss how they can support us in making the case for sustained investment as part of the current spending review. It was a very helpful meeting .

TfL Planning 8