LONDON 2062

Professor Sir Peter HallLondon 2062 - UCL23 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