Dave Arquati wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Dave Arquati wrote:


Crossrail has been approved, with a Hybrid Bill to deposited in
parliament as soon as possible


Do we know anything more about the details of the route, or will we have
to wait for the bill for that? Or is it pretty much decided now?

No route confirmation yet; I've just posted about the Montague Report
which seems to prefer Heathrow & Maidenhead to Shenfield & Ebbsfleet
(i.e. getting rid of Kingston and having Maidenhead instead). I
personally doubt the Kingston branch will survive; it's expensive and
appears to be unpopular - in fact it appears to be producing the only
true opposition to Crossrail.

ISTR recently reading that there's some opposition from Tower Hamlets
residents.

No mention of Crossrail 2, i take it ...

Nope - I don't think even CLRL realistically believe this will happen
anytime soon. The main reason the SRA support the Kingston branch is for
relief to Waterloo, so I don't think they believe it will happen either.
It's hard enough to build Crossrail 1 (and Thameslink 2000).

That it's not going to happen is mainly down to those incompetent
buffoons known as CLRL, who have pushed the costs to astronomical levels
without a corresponding increase in benefits.