Provide lifts at Queens Park station

The Issue

To ensure access for disabled people and others who cannot readily use stairs. This includes passengers struggling with heavy luggage / buggies etc often en route to nearby Paddington and also Heathrow. The station is heavily used and is served by both the Bakerloo and London Overground lines with numerous bus connections feeding in and out of the station 'hub', and is in a densely populated area where further residential development is anticipated. The station is the busiest on this section of the Bakerloo line (LU data 2012 shows Queens Park 5.53m users compared with Kilburn Park 3.46m and Maida Vale 2.99m).

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The Issue

To ensure access for disabled people and others who cannot readily use stairs. This includes passengers struggling with heavy luggage / buggies etc often en route to nearby Paddington and also Heathrow. The station is heavily used and is served by both the Bakerloo and London Overground lines with numerous bus connections feeding in and out of the station 'hub', and is in a densely populated area where further residential development is anticipated. The station is the busiest on this section of the Bakerloo line (LU data 2012 shows Queens Park 5.53m users compared with Kilburn Park 3.46m and Maida Vale 2.99m).

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Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson
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“Dear Petitioner, Thank you for your petition to the Mayor requesting step-free access provision at Queen’s Park station. In the Accessibility Implementation Plan for the Mayor’s Transport Strategy, Queen’s Park was identified as a station that could be made step free if funding became available. Transport for London (TfL) is aware that there is local interest in step-free access at this station and it is talking to Queens Park Area Residents’ Association about the issue. While Queen’s Park is managed by London Underground, it is owned by Network Rail, which means funding for such a scheme would have to come from the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) Access for All fund. Last year, the DfT announced there would be £100m Access for All funding to be used between 2014 and 2019. Network Rail and London Overground stations are expected to be eligible for this funding, although the precise eligibility criteria have not yet been confirmed by the DfT and they have not yet invited applications. In the meantime, TfL is looking at which stations could be good candidates and this includes looking at Queen’s Park. TfL will keep the Queens Park Area Residents’ Association updated about this. For details of TfL’s current funded step-free programme, as well as other stations in London being made step-free with the DfT’s Access for All fund, please see TfL’s Your Accessible Transport Network document, from last December. The document is available at tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/your-accessible-transport-network.pdf. It contains an overview of all of the work TfL is doing across London to make its networks more accessible. Yours sincerely, Public Liaison Unit Greater London Authority”

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Petition created on 19 August 2013