On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Offramp wrote:

So it looks like the crazy old Crossrail is going ahead! Coooooool!

Shunt! Shunt! Kriss Krossrail'll make you shunt! Shunt!

Ahem. Story he

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7024935.stm

No mention of land value capture per se; i'm not sure quite how this "levy
on London business rates" will work.

"If the project gets the final go-ahead, construction would begin in 2010
with trains up and running by 2015."

A likely story. Construction will start two years before the Olympics?
Well, there is the point that the Olympics won't need TBMs, but i'm not
convinced.

John Kay (who he? -ed.) doesn't like it, no sir:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/49e9a016-7...0779fd2ac.html

He dislikes it for stupid reasons, though, and says stupid things ("old
postal tunnel" is probably the funniest, if not the most stupid).

tom

--
so if you hear a chaffinch out on the pull attempting a severely off-key
version of "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys then you're not actually
going mad.