Battersea power station new tube station entrance

Battersea power station new tube station entrance - interviews with Seb Dance, the deputy mayor for transport, and TfL commissioner Andy Lord

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00:00Battersea Power Station, so good they named it twice.

00:03Not only did they name it twice, they opened a second entrance.

00:07Let's go and take a look, see what it's like.

00:13So the brand new set of escalators are just behind me there.

00:16It's sort of leading in and out of the station. It gives you a choice as soon as you come through

00:20the ticket barriers. You can either go left or right depending on where you want to go

00:24in the wider Battersea Power Station development.

00:27Amazing achievement, just four years since we opened the line and now we'll give direct access

00:32into the main retail and commercial area of the power station development and of course

00:37even greater accessibility for the station with a new lift and two escalators.

00:42Now Battersea Power Station, like Nine Elms, another new station just further down the line,

00:47is on the Northern Line extension which opened four years ago. Now TfL is very happy with the

00:53passenger numbers. In the last year there were around 10 million journeys through Battersea

00:58Power Station station.

00:59Is it great to see Battersea Power Station, Steve?

01:02Well yeah, it's Battersea Power Station, a bit like London Bridge makes the London London Bridge

01:09somewhat superfluous. I think Battersea Power Station will suffice, but I do like saying

01:13Battersea Power Station station.

01:14Now what this also demonstrates is the cost of modernising the tube. This development cost 21

01:21million pounds and TfL couldn't afford all that by itself. The Battersea Power Station developers

01:26chipped in, as did Wandsworth Council, as did City Hall and that's really the way forward for TfL.

01:33It's got plans to modernise more than a dozen tube stations in terms of providing more step free access,

01:38but it needs developers to come on board and work with it and essentially help to split the belly.

01:43When I was a young whippersnapper it was completely derelict and for many years after I ceased being

01:48a young whippersnapper it was derelict. So it's fabulous to see new life breathed into it. It's a

01:53destination not just, not just as I said for Wandsworth, but for London as well. People come

01:57internationally now to Battersea Power Station. It's a new centre of the city and it's all been possible

02:02because of this transport extension.