Call for Dagenham East tube station upgrade gains business backing

Barking and Dagenham Council has renewed its long-standing ambition to finally make Dagenham East tube station step-free.The council has launched a local petition and says that it now has support from local businesses for the case to make the station fully accessible. The council notes that the area has seen significant development in the past decade, and that the station’s usage has risen by over a third in the past three years.
However, TfL’s traffic figures show that the station i