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Colin Rosenstiel · March 18th 06, 12:39 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article .com,
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Paul,

Thanks for your detailed and interesting reply.

Two things emerge.

Firstly, although St. George in all of their rhetoric of the mid-1990s
about "funding a new station" did not, as far as I can recall, mention
anything about a cap. In any event, it was, I suppose, naive of me to
believe anything they said. I remember standing up at a public meeting
and predicting that the station would NEVER be built and, even if it
was, it would hardly have any effect on the extra car traffic that
would be generated, being on a line with a (then) twice-hourly service
between two stations that were hardly likely to be greatly used by
City
commuter traffic.

Secondly, presumably, the "capped"

I wonder what the originally estimated costs of the station was? I
suspect it was somewhat below £1.7M and when the estimates rose above
that St George said "enough is enough" and imposed a cap.

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Colin Rosenstiel