London Underground (LU) has begun work on a new entrance to Bank Tube station that will significantly reduce congestion through the station, one of the busiest on the network.
The new entrance to the Waterloo & City line will offer two new lifts, four new escalators and a new ticket hall when it opens in late 2017. It has been created by Bloomberg’s contractors as part of the planning conditions for the company’s European headquarters. The underground structure has now been handed to LU so that the fit-out of the station can begin.
LU engineers, in partnership with Hochtief, will also construct two new 5.5 metre passenger tunnels to link the new entrance with the existing platforms.
The Bank/Monument station complex is the fourth busiest interchange station on the Underground network, serving over 98 million customers per year. Transport for London has proposed a substantial upgrade of the capacity of the station from 2016 to keep up with increasing demand.
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