A new ticket hall at Victoria Underground station has opened as part of a £700million project.

The new entrance in Victoria Street, at the junction of Bressenden Place, near Cardinal Place, was opened on Monday (January 16) and leads to the new north ticket hall and Victoria Line.

It means customers can now exit the station onto Victoria Street without having to cross a series of busy road junctions outside the station.

Victoria is the fourth busiest Tube station and currently serves more than 82 million customers each year, Transport for London (TfL) said.

The entrance comes as part of a £700m project. (Picture: TfL).

It comes as part of a £700m project, to be done in stages, which will finish in 2018 and double the size of the station.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: "The opening of the new North ticket hall at Victoria is great news for the tens of millions of Londoners and tourists who pass through the station each year.

"It marks a significant step forward in a modernisation programme that will make journeys through this vital hub easier and more accessible for all."

Tunnels connecting the north ticket hall to the District and Circle lines will open in summer 2017.

People using the new entrance at Victoria Station. (Picture: TfL).

The station will then become step-free in early 2018, enabling customers with accessibility needs to access the Victoria Line.

The final part of the station to be completed, the expanded South ticket hall, will open in 2018.

Once it is all completed, the station will feature eight new lifts, nine new escalators and 20 new ticket gates and be double the size of the original station before work began in 2009.

Mark Wild, managing director of London Underground, said: "Opening the new entrance to Victoria is a huge step in the station's modernisation project, and will make journeys easier for many thousands of customers every day.

The full project will be completed by 2018. (Picture: TfL).

"Once completed, the new station will enable quicker journeys, allow people to move around more easily and make the station more accessible for everyone."

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