With the final East London Line (ELL extension) coming under budget, Caroline Pidgeon has called for the cancelled station at Surrey Canal to be reinstated.
A recent Transport for London report has revealed that "phase two" work on the line is expected to come in more than £4 million under budget.
The new section of the line from Surrey Quays will run through Peckham to Clapham Junction from late 2012. It will connect to the main section of the line which already runs from north London, through Southwark, Lewisham and onto Croydon.
However a station at Surrey Canal Road in New Cross, near to the Millwall stadium, was dropped from the westward branch because of a long standing dispute between TfL and the Department of Transport about funding.
Commenting on the news of the underspend Caroline said:
"It was hugely frustrating that two years ago the Department of Transport and TfL simply bickered over how to fund Surrey Canal Road station and so denied the people of south Bermondsey and north Lewisham the huge benefits of a new station which would connect them to the East London Line.
"However with the cost of the East London Line now lower than expected there are no excuses for TfL and private developers in the area to work together and finally agree a funding package. It might be late arriving , but a station at Surrey Canal must be built."
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