Please could you let me know which are the Step Free Schemes that have taken place over the past 3 years and which ones are planned for the future?

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Please could you let me know which are the Step Free Schemes that have taken place over the past 3 years and which ones are planned for the future?

In the last three years we have done the following London Underground stations:

• Greenford (Oct 2015)

   

• Tower Hill (July 2016)

   

• Vauxhall (Oct 2016)

   

• Tottenham Court Road (Feb 2017)

   

• Bond Street (Nov 2017)

   

• Bromley By Bow (Mar 2018)

   

   

  Bromley By Bow takes the total up to 73 stations, or 27% of the London Underground network.

   

   

  By 2022 the following stations will also have step free access from street to train on every line at the station:

   

   

• Newbury Park,

   

• Bromley-by-Bow

   

• Buckhurst Hill

   

• Harrow-on-the-Hill

   

• Amersham,

   

• Cockfosters,

   

• Mill Hill East,

   

• Osterley

   

• South Woodford

   

• Knightsbridge,

   

• Finsbury Park

   

• Victoria

   

• Boston Manor

   

• Burnt Oak

   

• Debden

   

• Hanger Lane

   

• Ickenham

   

• Northolt

   

• North Ealing

   

• Park Royal

   

• Rickmansworth

   

• Ruislip

   

• Snaresbrook

   

• Sudbury Hill

   

• Wimbledon Park

   

• Whitechapel

   

• Ealing Broadway

   

• Battersea Power Station

   

• Nine Elms

   

• + 7 more stations which are still to be confirmed

This will take the total to 109 stations, or 40% of the network.

Currently, 57 London Overground stations are step-free.

The following 7 London Overground stations were made step free in the last few years:

• Brockley

• Hampstead Heath

• Honor Oak Park

• Kensal Rise

• New Cross Gate

• Queens Road Peckham

• South Tottenham

Lifts or ramps will be built to provide step-free access at other London Overground stations during the next ten years:

2018/19: Blackhorse Road, Whitechapel (to and from London Overground platforms only)
2019/20 onwards: West Hampstead, Brondesbury, White Hart Lane

Please see the table below for the overall, and by borough percentages of wheelchair accessible, bus stops and changes in wheelchair accessible bus stops (absolute and % change) over the last 3 years.

	Total % of bus stops wheelchair accessible (April 2018)	Total Bus stops upgraded (April 2015-2018)	% Bus stops upgraded (April 2015-2018)
All London	95%	2072	13%
Barking & Dagenham	95%	48	15%
Barnet	88%	232	29%
Bexley	99%	98	17%
Brent	98%	55	10%
Bromley	64%	25	3%
Camden	96%	55	14%
City of London	100%	0	0%
Croydon	98%	172	18%
Ealing	100%	62	9%
Enfield	91%	59	12%
Greenwich	97%	83	12%
Hackney	99%	8	2%
H&F	100%	10	4%
Haringey	98%	52	13%
Harrow	99%	17	4%
Havering	99%	184	29%
Hillingdon	95%	116	18%
Hounslow	95%	133	21%
Islington	99%	5	1%
K&C	97%	3	1%
Kingston	100%	0	0%
Lambeth	93%	32	6%
Lewisham	97%	95	16%
Merton	99%	52	12%
Newham	91%	56	12%
Redbridge	98%	161	34%
Richmond	95%	66	15%
Southwark	98%	44	7%
Sutton	98%	2	1%
Tower Hamlets	98%	6	2%
Waltham Forest	98%	95	19%
Wandsworth	96%	10	2%
Westminster	97%	36	8%

We are currently at 95% of bus stops being wheelchair accessible. 

In terms of future delivery the recently published Mayor’s Transport Strategy (please see link below) has two commitments regarding Bus Stop Accessibility under Proposal 54:

https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/mayors-transport-strategy-2018.pdf

“d) Continuing to upgrade existing bus stops, including hail and ride route sections, so that they meet the wheelchair accessible standard, and ensuring that

all new and amended bus stops will be wheelchair accessible as a minimum.

e) Delivering a higher level of bus stop accessibility at key locations, such as major transport interchanges and key health and education hubs.”

Figure 20 (page 151) shows our ambition that all boroughs should have 95% of bus stops wheelchair accessible by 2025.

All DLR and London Tramlink stations are step-free.

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Eva Hextall

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

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