London 2012 blog

As part of our consultation programme with key partners, the ODA invited the London Assembly Transport Team for a briefing on the exciting upgrade plans we have for Stratford regional station and to give them a tour of the site. We are speaking to Stratford’s businesses and other interested parties regularly at the Stratford Town Centre Forum and will develop a communications programme at the station itself to keep people informed during the spring. The GLA team are really interested in the work we have been doing, and are extremely knowledgeable about the plans for the area. 

The upgrade is going to completely transform the current station to make sure it can handle the thousands of passengers that will go through it everyday in 2012. For example, we are re-opening an old subway, adding new lifts to make the station more accessible and creating a new entrance to the station at mezzanine level above the current taxi rank at Meridian Square.

The legacy will be a train station that the people of Stratford will be proud of, with vastly increased capacity, more gates, and better links between different underground lines, overground platforms and the DLR.  I’m looking forward to seeing the finished result in a couple of years time and seeing it unveiled to the world.

The station next to the Olympic Park site, with the city in the background: