On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 19:44:18 +0100, thoss wrote:

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...

I seem to remember that, even before that disastrous day when London was
awarded the Olympics, it was stated that Crossrail would not be
completed before 1913. Why didn't they go for the 1916 Olympics?

Your brain seems to be suffering from the millennium bug.

And yes, it has been the case for a number of years that the project
could not have been completed before 2013.