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You are here: Greenwich / News / Foot tunnel lifts after one week: out of order and broken glass

Foot tunnel lifts after one week: out of order and broken glass

April 12, 2012 By Rob Powell

THE NEW lifts in Greenwich Foot Tunnel have experienced a difficult second week with service outages reported and a pane of glass shattered.

The much-delayed reopening of the lifts finally took place last Monday, but just over a week later later people took to Twitter to complain that the lifts were out of action.

A spokesperson for Greenwich Council confirmed that the lifts were out of order for "a short time" on Tuesday.

Unconfirmed reports of further problems surfaced on Wednesday, and by Wednesday evening it emerged that a pane of glass on the lift enclosure at the northern side had been shattered.

The council revealed in February that it has replaced the main contractor on the refurbishment project, for which it received a grant of £11.6 million, because of the "severe delays to the programme."

Update: Reports on Twitter that the south-side lift was also at around 6.10pm.

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Comments

  1. Simon says

    April 18, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    why does no one from the London Cycling Campaign speak out on these issues?

    Are they afraid to challenge the incompetence of Labour run Greenwich Council who have failed cyclists for so long?

    It seems over the last two years the only person who has taken any interest in both the Greenwich and Woolwich Foot Tunnels has been the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon, who is the Deputy Mayoral candiate for the Lib Dems.

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