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Bricklayers Arms: locals rally to tell TfL 'we want tube station'

Local residents joined Green, Labour and Lib Dem politicians at the Bricklayers Arms on Saturday for a rally to show the strength of public support for a new tube station at the road junction as part of the Bakerloo line extension.

Suhel Ahmed of Tower Bridge Road Alliance welcomed the crowd to the rally

Mayor of Southwark Cllr Charlie Smith looked forward to the day that announcements on the tube said 'the next station is Bricklayers Arms'

Caroline Pidgeon AM (Lib Dem)

Peter Wright of Bricklayers Arms TRA

Cllr Helen Dennis (Labour, Chaucer ward) recently proposed a motion at council assembly securing cross-party backing for a tube station at Bricklayers Arms

Cllr Damian O'Brien (Lib Dem, Grange ward)

Sir Simon Hughes reminded the crowd that the Jubilee line extension might not have included stations at Southwark and Bermondsey but these are now well-used

Eleanor Margolies of Southwark Green Party highlighted the toxic air quality already experienced by local residents

Local campaigner and former Labour councillor Piers Corbyn held a counter-demonstration, warning that a tube extension would exacerbate social cleansing in Southwark