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TPP benefit to go to inner area in £1,370m budget
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INNER London — especially the depressed docks area — will benefit most from Greater London Council's £1,370 million transport policy and programme.
Key to the scheme is the controversial Jubilee underground extension from Charing Cross to Thamesmead, for which the council may not gain Government support, while this is being backed up by proposals for bus, train, and road improvements in the docks area.
London Transport's share of £687 million public transport allocation includes guaranteed revenue support in line with inflation, but it is hoped that increased operational efficiency will reduce the amount necessary.
A £40 million bus garage improvement plan is included, but new garaging facilities at Hammersmith, Edgware, and Uxbridge will be financed by property development and are not included in the tpp.
The thorny question of bus lanes is touched upon. Some are now out of use and blocked to all traffic, while new assessment criteria have resulted in a reduced number of new lanes.
New lanes will be introduced "where they accord with the new criteria," while the tpp indicates that other bus priority measures will be sought in future.
The council is not respons ible for such major road schemes as the M25 orbital motorway and improvements to the A406 North Circular Road, but it has allocated £659 million to road improvements to relieve congested areas, and to maintenance.
A £1.1 million freight budget calls for provision of off-street unloading facilities, a ban on through vehicles over 16 tonnes gvw within the M25 ring, and the implementation of tighter Government noise and emission standards.
The freight complex at Neasden and the common user terminal at Purley Way, Croydon are included, as is the council's first strategic lorry park at Beckton.