Out and about on the Portinscale Estate

This weekend my campaign team and I were talking to residents of the Portinscale estate: Askill Drive, Buttermere Drive, Portinscale Road and part of Keswick Road, just behind East Putney Station.

We got a really good response, although residents had lots of transport concerns - especially about accessibility to local stations. We'd already delivered The Putney Paper to this estate so residents were aware of the planned improvements to Putney Station, which will include a passenger lift; and similar renovations to Southfields tube station because it's one of the 2012 Olympics Stations.

Unfortunately East Putney Station, which had been scheduled for the same sort of accessibilty improvements, appears to have been a victim of the collapse of Metronet: the private company with the contract to overhaul much of the tube network that went bust last year. It's still too early to say when East Putney will now get the work, but obviously I'm pushing Transport for London hard.