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Old May 28th 10, 08:06 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Mizter T wrote:

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On May 27, 3:23*pm, kev wrote:

The government is considering making £4-5bn of cuts to the £16.9bn
Crossrail scheme, as the scale of capital spending cuts starts to
emerge.
An internal Crossrail team, under instruction from ministers to save
money on the scheme, is understood to be considering dropping either
the planned Tottenham Court Road or Bond Street station.


If cuts that deep are really on the cards, then as Steven Norris says,
they might as well not bother.


Surely deep cuts always were inevitable with Crossrail...

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On 28 Mai, 10:06, Chris Tolley (ukonline
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Surely deep cuts always were inevitable with Crossrail...


Really? I thought they were going to use a tunneling shield?

I'll get my trenchcoat.
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