Good news for London City Airport

Tunnelling work to modernise and expand Bank Underground station has been completed, marking a major milestone in the project.

It will eventually be good news for London City Airport as one of the major connections to the East London airport is finally updated.   Total work on the massive underground complex will not be completed until 2022.

At present the DLR is timed at just 20 minutes to Bank Station.  The ‘fun’ starts at that point with connections to the Northern Line simple, but to the Central Line complex and Circle/District Line trains not recommended (Tower Gateway and a change is shorter and simpler).  The Waterloo and City Line is presently closed.  Actually, getting to the surface to the point you want is not easy either.

With the Elizabeth Line still some way away (and no progress on a London City Airport Station) the establishment of a walkway from Poplar DLR to the Canary Wharf Elizabeth Line station remains an idea.

The airport has released an image of the new taxiway, where work is continuing.

www.londoncityairport.com

https://tfl.gov.uk/maps/track?intcmp=40400

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Malcolm Ginsberg, London

There was a Silvertown Station 30 years which at the time also served LCY. It was closed and the line made over to Crossrail. Johnson, and his sidekick Moylan (now Lord Moylan!), in their efforts for the Thames estuary project tried to throttle the new airport and hence no station in the plans. The appointment of the Crossrail chairman to the same position at City Airport did not help. What the station gives is quick transport to central London and visibility. The cost has been put at £30m. Even now it would be a project worth undertaking and show confidence in the airport and London. Given normal conditions a million passengers a year would be possible.

Michael Asher, Istanbul

I am intrigued by your regular "knocks" about the lack of plans for London City Airport station on Elizabeth line. Do please share the studies of traffic anticipated to warrant such a station. From my "back of a fag packet" calculations, a minibus shuttle from another station would be perfectly adequate for the likely traffic.

John Jones, West Ham

Pity about the railway station. I just wonder how much Johnson spent on his Thames Estuary project and we all know about the bridge that cost £100m and was not even started.