Ken's £100m Tube lifts 'will wreck TfL finances'

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The Labour candidate said it was wrong that the capital's transport network was "effectively off limits" to passengers with disabilities. He says he wants to install lifts, escalators and ramps costing hundreds of millions of pounds at stations across London.

A spokesman said Mr Livingstone would initially target locations in outer London, including Ealing.

Boris Johnson has accused Mr Livingstone of being a "waster of public money" and said TfL cannot afford his plans to cut fares, which it has claimed will cost £1billion, and other expensive promises.

A spokesman for Mr Johnson said: "Mr Livingstone's unfunded, fraudulent promises include cutting £1billion from TfL's budget, promising TfL will bankroll the Met and now he is promising TfL will pay to put lifts in a third of London's Tube stations, at a cost of £100million per station. With his record of waste and financial mismanagement, Mr Livingstone appears intent on bringing TfL to its knees."

Mr Livingstone had previously promised that a third of all stations would be step-free by the end of next year but that plan was scrapped by Mr Johnson, who said putting a lift in Green Park station alone cost nearly £100 million.

Mr Livingstone said he would also improve access on suburban railways if he took control of them.

He added: "Its unacceptable that Tory Mayor is hiking up fares [while] over four years there has been a £948million underspend on the capital budget, only a fraction of which would be needed to fund station improvements."

Mr Johnson has built 50,000 affordable homes, it has emerged, but it took a year longer than he promised in 2008.