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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Noah Vickers

East London station's step-free upgrade remains unstarted five years after being announced

Plans to provide step-free access at an east London railway station are still stuck on the drawing board half a decade after being announced, transport bosses have admitted.

The promise of installing lifts at Hackney Downs Overground station was made in April 2019 by Theresa May’s Government as part of the Access for All programme, funded by the Department for Transport (DfT) and managed by Network Rail.

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