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Old May 30th 17, 12:41 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Crossrail 2 hits the buffers

On 2017-05-30 11:16:20 +0000, Roland Perry said:

In message , at
04:07:40 on Tue, 30 May 2017, Paul Corfield
remarked:
I will be astonished if CR2 starts construction within the next 20
years. We will see a repeat of the nonsense that Crossrail had to
endure to get to the point of "spades in the ground". This is because
politicians are generally pretty stupid when it comes to transport
investment.


Or perhaps they realise that spending huge sums on something like CR2
brings less kudos than promising the same amount for the NHS, were
everyone in the country, not just a few toffs in Chelsea, can bask in
its alleged benefit.


Except that the toffs in Chelsea really don't want a station on CR2.