On Mar 20, 4:25*pm, Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:
D7666 wrote:
On Mar 15, 2:55 pm, allantracy wrote:
So, it's finally really happening.

...... and only thirteen years late.

It was approved 2007 ... under a Labour government based on the 2005
proposals ... made during a Labour government.

If it is 13 years late by your reckoning it was 1994 when it ought to
have been approved - but it was not - by a Tory government.

The previous study that made as far as a Bill were presented in 1991
to a Tory gov finally rejected in 1994 by a Tory gov.

Regardless of the flavours of government involved: with hindsight, should
the 1991 plan have been approved? By how much did those plans differ from
the current plan? By how much did the estimated cost differ from the
current estimated cost? Genuine questions...

IIRC the central section was not much different in the ealy plan.
There was to be an extra station between Tottenham Court Rd and
Farringdon. I do not recall the cost, it was high enough to frighten
the politicians.