Transport for London has announced today that Brixton Tube station is step-free once again after two new lifts were successfully installed.
The new lifts will help to ensure the station is accessible to all passengers. This includes disabled or older customers, parents or carers with buggies and people with heavy luggage.
The new lifts are easier to maintain than the previous ones and will operate much quicker than the outgoing ones too.
The station has two lifts, one from the street to the ticket hall, and the other from the ticket hall to the platforms.
What did the officials say?
Esther Sharples, TfL's Head of Stations, Buildings & Civils, said:
`These new lifts have restored step-free access to the Tube in Brixton for our many customers for whom lifts make a real difference to their journey. I would like to thank our customers for their patience over the last six months while we carried out these vital replacement works.'
Chair of Transport for All, Alan Benson, said:
`At Transport for All we're pleased to see these new lifts at Brixton Tube station brought into service and promising both a faster and more reliable service. Having no step-free access at such a major station has caused real problems for large sections of the community, not just disabled and older people.
`We are particularly pleased that TfL has listened to passengers about the impact these maintenance and replacement works have on people and has strived to reopen these lifts as quickly as possible. This has taken a real effort by TfL staff which is to be applauded. We hope this timely return to service is continued to be achieved on future projects.'
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