User:Nightfury/Old Kent Road tube station

Old Kent Road is a proposed tube station on the proposed extension of the Bakerloo line to Hays and Beckenham and would be the first stop from Elephant & Castle.

Proposals
In September 2014 Transport for London ran a consultation. The cost of the extension would be in the region of £2-£3 billion and construction was proposed to start in the mid 2020s, with a completion date of the early 2030s. The results of this consultation are planned for release during Spring 2015, but the London Boroughs of Southwark, Lewisham and Greenwich, local MPs and London Assembly members have signed a letter supporting this extension. Some Bromley councilors have been accused by their counterparts in Lewisham of being against the extension.

In early 2014 the Mayor of London Boris Johnson stated that the Old Kent Road would be designated an opportunity area and this could cause TfL to prefer a route via this area rather than the Camberwell route.

In December 2015, Transport for London announced that the Old Kent Road option was indeed its preferred route, and proposed taking the line as far as Lewisham, which it said could be running by 2030. Proposals for a further extension beyond Lewisham, such as to Hayes and Beckenham or Bromley, would now be considered in a separate phase in the more distant future.