On May 6, 2:33*pm, Tony Polson wrote:

D DB 90001 wrote:

I'm not sure if that would be possible, but it would be the next best
thing, second only to electrification of the line to Oxford, which
admittedly *should* happen, but probably not until after crossrail.

Of course the probability that *none* of this will happen is increasing
by the day.

I think John B is on the record as saying he'll eat a hat factory if
there hasn't been an announcement by the end of the year. That said,
perhaps he's calculated that there won't be any hat factories left!

Of course an announcement in the next year doesn't mean that what gets
announced will actually happen - the government's going to change next
May, and the Tories are talking about making lots of "hard
choices" (see the other thread about the purported Tory threat to
Crossrail... though I do wonder if this is a pre-emptive strike by
Boris & co or some other interested pro-Crossrail protagonist(s)... )