LONDON 2062
Professor Sir Peter Hall London 2062 - UCL 23 April 2012
London Plan: Population Rising (especially in East) - but Ageing
Employment: Growing too – especially in Centre and East
Deprivation: Continuing W-E Divide
London Plan 2011: Key Diagram
Major Transport Schemes
Thameslink
Crossrail
Heathrow: Missing Connection
Orbirail: Good News, Bad News
Missing Interchange: Bermondsey
Missing Interchange: Loughborough Jct
Missing Interchange: Brixton
The West London Line Model
How Berlin Does It! (Why not here?)
Orbirail 2?
HS2: Key Features • Very high speed: up to 400k/hr • No stops, except • “Edge city” locations: airports, secondary centres • 2 phases: (1) Birmingham (2) Leeds, Manchester • Links on to HS1… • …and “classic” network
London • Euston: enlarged: Problem! • (Maybe not?: divert LM slow trains to Crossrail? • King’s Cross: • HS1 link
Capital Superhub: London International • European Model: Berlin Hauptbahnhof • UK Example: Proposed London International: • Euston + KX/SP
Old Oak: A West London Stratford?
Thames Gateway Targets: 2003
Thames Gateway Bridge: An Answer?
Thames Gateway: Stratford 1999, 2012
Kent Thamesside: Ebbsfleet Valley, Fastrack
Thames Gateway: Eastern Quarry 1997, 2006, 2015
South East Mega-City Region
Sustainable Communities Corridors: Growing the SE into the Midlands‌
Outer Orbirail
London Plan: Airports
Thames Hub Airport