Posted by CAS1 over on Spurs Odyssey:As a result of a leak from Mayor Livingstone's office, we have discovered that a new tube station to be called "White Hart Lane" is planned to open in 2012 in time for the Olympics.
The station will be sited on the other side of the Paxton Road end and will have a subway leading directly into the ground.
This means that that the Club will be staying at WHL and we understand that it intends to expand the stadium capacity to nearly 50,000.
The plans are to stay at WHL and rebuild the West stand first, moving most of the offices and other facilities next to the new station and installing twice as many seats as present.
The East stand will then also be rebuilt to increase capacity and remove the existing pillars.
There will be subways under the stands with travelators like those at Heathrow under both the East and the West stands to speed arrival and departure from the ground during games.
The directors have decided that it would not be financially viable to move temporarily to another stadium and so the ground will have a reduced capacity while each stand is rebuilt.
The station will be on a new branch of the Victoria line running from Finsbury Park via WHL to a new station called "Lee Valley" North East of WHL which will have a huge underground car park just the other side of the King George V reservoir.
The new car park will be situated just inside the M25 because, as will shortly be revealed in the TV media and the national press, the Mayor intends to expand the Congestion Zone after the Olympics to the whole of the area inside the M25 and wants eight huge car parks built roughly on the points of the compass to force commuters to use public transport to get into London.
The Club have already announced that it will decide this year whether or not to move from WHL.
The new tube station will solve most of the transport problems and is part of the Mayor's plans to rejuvenate the local area.
The following facts support the intention for a new tube station to be built:-
a) There already is an existing tunnel built in 1960 from the Thames at Hampton to the King George V reservoir - see East London Waterworks
b) According to the history of the Victoria Line - some test work on new, cheaper, tunnelling techniques was carried out in 1960 and 1961
c) Ken Livingstone is on our side - see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2862557.stmd) According to the Club's accounts, at 30 June 2006, Tottenham Hotspur Football & Athletic Co. Limited had direct interests in the subsidiary undertakings noted below, all of which are registered and operate in England and Wales including:
Paxton Road Limited
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