Travel Green with London's EcoPod

In September, we wrote about South London's Elephant and Castle quarter going green with the development of an eco-residential tower. The trendy quarter's next green initiative? The EcoPod. Inhabitat has the scoop:

A U.K. initiative called ConnectingSouthwark.com is putting the green in public transportation with an EcoPod tram station that provides information and a great teaching tool for environmental responsibility. Made from recycled shipping containers and powered by renewable energy such as solar panels and wind turbines, the EcoPod is a great symbol of the green principles underpinning both the tram and its recent regeneration program.

As part of the strategy to connect South and North London, the Transport for London [TFL] commissioned U.K. designers at WIRE to develop a new identity for their proposed tram system. The EcoPod is installed in the heart of Southwark’s flagship regeneration area, Elephant and Castle, providing information about the London Cross River Tram and the new Elephant and Castle transportation programs.

The Cross River Tram will service stations between Euston and Waterloo, and will connect neighborhoods Elephant and Castle, Aylesbury Estate, Peckham, and Burgess Park to central London. Thanks, Inhabitat!

Photo: Connecting Southwark

Comments

[Elena]

You are getting it all wrong, I'm afraid.
The only green in the regeneration of the Elephant is that of the dollars (actually the pounds, but they're not green) of the aggressive property developments happening there.
The ecopod is now abandoned and all its function as community space are long gone.
The sustainability of the tram is doubtful, given that we don't know how much it is going to cost to the taxpayer or to the users (and its route is cutting across the only metropolitan green space in the area, Burgess park and terminating in an industrial site currently being used by Black and Minority ethnic businesses who cannot afford to go anywhere else).

Do your homework properly.

A resident