Ian Johnston wrote:
: Just
: makes me wonder if the money being invested in the ELL wouldn't have
: been better spent going towards Crossrail, given that the latter can't
: get the funding.

It can't get the funding, though, because it's a completely crap idea
and would, if it were ever built, be the worst waste of infrastructure
money in living memory. At least the Chunnel might be useful, one day.


For that remark, you are sentenced to an eternity of travelling between
Liverpool Street and Tottenham Court Road on the Central Line every
morning peak hour.

Seriously, nobody's suggesting (except, apparently, you) that Crossrail
won't immediately attract massive ridership. The question is whether
the benefits (pegged by several studies at somewhere between £10bn and
£50bn) exceed the costs (somewhere between £10bn and £20bn).

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John Band
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