Commuters facing ‘nightmare’ at tube station after escalator closes for six months
Commuters facing ‘nightmare’ at tube station after escalator closes for six months
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Passengers are forced to walk down the escalators for months to catch a Tube at a London Underground station. The Blackhorse Road Underground station escalators in Walthamstow have been shut for urgent repairs.
The closure is set to last until the summer, raising concerns for disabled passengers and over ‘chaos’ for commuters travelling on the Victoria line. TfL said the station escalators will be closed until late June. With a lift ouf of action at nearby Walthamstow Central, concerns have also been raised for people with heavy luggage and prams.
Stella Creasy, the MP for Walthamstow, said that TfL told her that there will be no down escalators for months. She said that none of the stations in Walthamstow are ‘actually accessible.’. ‘If you are a wheelchair user, you can’t get direct access to our platforms at either Blackhorse Road or Walthamstow Central,’ she said.
Mr Creasy said she has asked for more buses to run between Blackhorse Road station and Walthamstow Central and Tottenham Hale, and allowing more than two buggies on buses between the stations. Ezra Johnson, a campaigns officer with the disabled people’s organisation Transport for All, told Metro: ‘We all need to get around – public transport is the lifeblood of London.
‘That’s why it’s unacceptable that escalators and lifts at two nearby stations are out of action at the same time. It leaves disabled people trapped – people with energy-limiting impairments, mobility impairments, and visual impairments are all likely to feel this blow.’.
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