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The government must tackle infrastructure problems
Published: August 2 2007 20:02 | Last updated: August 2 2007 20:02
Only in Britain would people think the chance of securing a new train
line to be the chief virtue of hosting the Olympics.
Now, completion of the east-west Crossrail link before the 2012 Games
remains in doubt.

There's an understatement - look at the timescales from now for the ELLX ,
late 2010? - or Thameslink phase 1, 2011?? The outstanding work in both
cases is comparatively trivial compared to Crossrail, surely...

Paul