NEW CROSS: Boris Johnson forgets about £10m station (From News Shopper)

NEW CROSS: Boris Johnson forgets about £10m station

4:16pm Thursday 10th June 2010

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FUNDING for a new £10m train station is still no clearer to being confirmed after the Mayor of London admitted forgetting to raise the issue.

Boris Johnson had told the London Assembly he would ask the government’s new Transport Secretary Philip Hammond about money for the proposed Surrey Canal Road station in New Cross at their first meeting.

But at Mayor’s Question Time Mr Johnson admitted he had not raised the subject at all.

Building the station, as part of the East London Line extension’s second phase, is reliant upon the government giving Transport for London £7m.

Liberal Democrat London Assembly Transport Spokeswoman Caroline Pidgeon called the omission “incredible”.

She said afterwards: “If we don't secure the additional £7m now this station will be lost for a generation.”

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