Outline concepts for trams in South

London

v10 January 2015

Objectives Reliability Maintain or improve reliability on 2014 levels

Capacity &

frequency

Avoid leaving passengers behind at any time

Make best use of existing capacity

No more than 10 minutes wait at any time of day

Manage tramstop congestion

Journey time Minimise journey time increases in central Croydon

Maintain or improve upon current journey times outside central Croydon

Capability &

connectivity

Future-proof for extensions to improve connectivity i.e. Sutton or Crystal Palace

Improve the quality of interchanges

Adapt to changing land use and travel patterns

Customer

satisfaction

Deliver customer satisfaction scores of 90 or above

Efficiency Cover a greater proportion of tram operating costs from fares revenue to enable investment

Regeneration Support population and economic growth in Croydon Opportunity Area and other

regeneration areas

Environment Integrate into the urban realm without compromising attractiveness of tram services

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Growing demand on Trams

Current demand of

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56m by 2031

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Actual Annual Passenger Journeys Forecast Annual Passenger Journeys

Forecasts assume committed rail and LU schemes but not Bakerloo Line Extension or Crossrail 2

Crowding (2011)

Wimbledon branch

Crowding on

Wimbledon branch to

and from City centre

New Addington

Increasing levels of

crowding Cross-Croydon

Severe crowding will

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Service today

Major plans for Croydon

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Source: developcroydon.com, 2014

Improvements to the Tram network are needed to underpin the growth of

Croydon

Key challenges by 2030

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Wimbledon branch

Severe crowding even

with extra services

about to be introduced

Central Croydon

No more line capacity

across the town centre

Eastern branches

Severe crowding

through Sandilands

Depots

No permanent capacity

to stable additional

trams

Average PM peak standing densities by 2030, pax/m;

black is worst, then red, brown, yellow, green, grey

Work already underway on Trams

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Four new trams will be delivered in

2015

Output will be 12tph to Wimbledon

by 2016

Current proposals for Trams

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Also includes 2 extra trams

Some services divert from town centre loop to

new Dingwall Loop to avoid town centre

congestion

Allows increase of 2tph to New Addington as

soon as new infrastructure opens circa 2018...

...as well as underpinning further future increases

as part of the long-term plan

Our long-term proposals for Trams

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A three-phase strategy

Summary

We have a long-term plan in three phases to improve

reliability and capacity across the network, and enable

extensions to be built Phase 1: Immediate enhancements to deal with central Croydon

growth

Phase 2: Major western upgrade & potential extension to Sutton

Phase 3: Longer-term capacity across the network

Dingwall Road Loop is a key building block of this,

enabling us to gradually increase services to the east of

Croydon without major impacts on buses, pedestrians &

other road users in the town centre

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