On 14 Dec, 13:07, Mizter T wrote:
On 14 Dec, 12:51, "Paul Scott" wrote:

"Mwmbwls" wrote:

Will the Lords be able to amend the bill so that Reading, Ebbsfleet
and possibly Stansted become the logical termini?

When I saw your thread title, I thought it would be a report on how the
Lords were already proposing changes - however I see nothing other than a
report that the commons stages are complete.

Is the title wishful thinking?

Paul

It would appear to be just that!

It would be nice if the lords were to force them to rebuilt the nice
buildings they plan to obliterate on the way. It seems to me almost as
if its routing, and the structure of its stations has been
deliberately designed to demolish anything nice that developers and
modernist idiologs like Norman Foster and Richard Rogers wouldn't be
able to demolish any other way.

I don't see why they should be allowed to pull down things like the
buildings on Cowcross Street and replace them with some huge office
block or glassy steel windowed box; they should be forced to rebuild
it all, like at the forecourt of St. Pancras, or at least to rebuild
it according to the new design if its too expensive to reuse the same
bricks etc.