Entries tagged with “Lea Bridge” from Working For Walthamstow

You can see a short film of Florrie at the award's ceremony here on youtube.

The Hall Farm Curve is a short piece of track, which linked up the Liverpool St - Chingford Line with the Lea Valley Line. This enabled trains to run between Stratford and Chingford. It closed over twenty years ago but since then there has been a long running campaign for the line to be reopened. It would be especially important in the light of the transport needs for the Olympics but there are many positive repercussions to the local economy in getting an easier connection to the Jubilee line, the DLR and Canary Wharf.
 
I'm pleased to report talks have recently started with Network Rail about reopening the line and so connecting Walthamstow with Stratford during the 2010-2015 time period of transport investment. Getting this line reopened, and making the case for the station at Lea Bridge to be reinstated as part of the route too, would be a vital boost to public transport links for Walthamstow. As plans develop I'll keep readers posted.

The decision not to match the Council funding for the Lea Bridge Library refurbishment by the National Lottery has been a setback to the plans for its future, but not an end to them. This week I've been lobbying people to get ideas for who else we should approach to rebuild this beautiful but crumbling building and bring the top floor back into use. I've also raised the issue with Hazel Blears, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, and Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office, about the project and asked them for ideas. You can see the pictures here of me giving them the CD the residents produced to showcase the community work we do at the library as well as how the local papers have covered our campaigning. This coming week I'll be speaking to the Olympic authority and the Adult Learning Service to see whether they can help us. Being a politician has taught me the value of persistence - this project is too central to improving the lives of many in the Lea Bridge area to give up now and if anyone else has ideas for possible partners for this project they should get in touch. .