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Mizter T writes

It is not known what impact a decision to drop Tottenham Court Road
station might have on the £250m upgrade of the tube station, currently
being undertaken by Vinci and Bam Nuttall.

It's very unlikely to result in significant savings, if any, given that
a lot of the work is already well under way, a huge amount has already
been spent on compulsory purchase of expensive buildings for both the
Eastern and Western Ticket Halls, and that signed contracts (no doubt
with costly withdrawal clauses) are in place.

Similarly, I can't really see that shortening platforms will create any
savings - quite the opposite, in fact, given that in many cases ticket
halls are at both extreme ends of the planned long platforms. Either
longer underground passages would be needed, or the entire sites of some
ticket halls would have to be changed, leaving abandoned works and
creating more rounds of compulsory purchases with associated massive
costs.

Axing two of the branches is a more achievable, albeit undesirable, way
of cutting the cost.
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Paul Terry