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Old June 15th 10, 08:18 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Crossrail - Transport Secretary's statement

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:06:07 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
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Which I suppose could be interpreted as 'we want the full scheme but
we want to pay less for it' - likewise, it could also be interpreted
as 'we want the full scheme but we definitely don't want any cost
overruns on it'.


As it the £15.9 bn headline figure is 3 times the actual estimate to
allow for "optimism bias" there really shouldn't be any overrun!
 
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