“Thank you for your email.
Yes, I can confirm that the Secretary of State (Department for Transport) has set out a condition that Shoreditch be a Zone 1 station as part of the funding deal that’s been agreed.
As with most of these type of agreements, they are complicated and involved and I'm not in a position to provide further details of the reasoning behind the decision.”
So although the price of using the East London Railway will bring in extra money, the addition cost means that the full extension gets built and built quickly. Now its just a case of seeing if TfL can get the cash for the Surrey Canal Road station.
The original story can be found here.
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This is very disappointing news. People who are doing zone 1 a favour by avoiding it are going to charged the same rate for taking what is likely to be a quiet off-peak style journey so could just end up going via zone 1 if it is quicker or easier.
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