Earlsfield overcrowding

A new report from the London Assembly Transport Committee has highlighted Earlsfield Station as one of the most overcrowded stations in London.

Sadiq Khan, the MP for Tooting - who represents the majority of Earlsfield's community - has been campaigning on improving Earlsfield Station for years; in fact Labour's council team for Earlsfield made the state of the station a major campaign issue way back in 2002.

But a small section of our constituency also regards itself as Earlsfield - areas like Penwith Road, Strathville Road, Ravensbury Road and Dounesforth Gardens are all in the Putney constituency, albeit a long way from Putney itself.

The Transport Committee is pressing the Mayor to implement some of the promises both he - and Putney's Conservative MP made when they were seeking election but have so far failed to deliver on, such as introducing longer trains, improved reliability and a reduction in the number of cancelled trains.



Elsewhere in London other planned public transport upgrades, such as Crossrail will help relieve pressure. But there is very little for our part of South West London other than the three options above.

Until we can create significantly new capacity for south west London there will continue to be overcrowding problems at Earlsfield. And that makes for unhappy commuters.

You can read a copy of the London Assembly Transport Committee report here.