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• Crossrail & The Evening Standard Part 3: Solutions and Conclusions

  Simon Jenkins' suggested “solution” to the problem of Crossrail is, throughout the article, quite clear: [Mayor] Johnson could now argue that the £5.6billion for Crossrail be switched to other Tube projects, such as resignalling the Bakerloo and Piccadilly... Posted May 01 2009, 03:02 PM by London Reconnections Filed under: crossrail, evening standard, crossrail 2

• Crossrail & The Evening Standard Part 2: Into The Hackney Wilderness

  As the article describes it (bolding mine): Crossrail is no longer a railway that makes sense. Back in the Eighties it was way behind the Jubilee line and the then (and now) top priority, a new northeast/southwest line from Hackney to Chelsea and beyond... Posted May 01 2009, 02:50 PM by London Reconnections Filed under: crossrail, evening standard, crossrail 2

• Crossrail & The Evening Standard Part 1: Crossrail The White Elephant?

  Although work on Crossrail is now firmly underway, there are still those who question whether it should go ahead at all. The latest to comment on this issue is Simon Jenkins over at the Evening Standard, in an opinion piece entitled " Crossrail will... Posted May 01 2009, 02:40 PM by London Reconnections Filed under: crossrail, evening standard, crossrail 2