GO-AHEAD FOR X-RAIL `IN WEEKS'
 

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From: theWharf
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THE Government green light on the long-awaited Crossrail
scheme could come in a matter of weeks.

Westminster sources are confident the go-ahead on the £10billion
east-west scheme will be made within days of the comprehensive
spending review, set for July 12.

Ten billion will probably get you half a mile of single track by
the time all the companies, contractor, lawyers and consultants
have taken their respective cuts.

Re-integrate or re-nationalise before chcking all this money down
the drain!

what do you propose then if you don't want companies, contractors,
lawyers and consultants? Are you implying that a new nationalised
company with all the experience and expertise to do this job could
magically appear with all its own tunnelling equipment and employ
all the staff and workers and to do the job faster, cheaper and
more efficiently than any private contractors?

yeah right!

That's not how it read to me. My reading suggests that what he's
proposing is a single organisation that has a hierarchical command
structure thus obviating the need for a multitude of inter-company
exchanges and contracts thus removing the need for an excess of
"suits" and other bureaucrats.

Message reposted with correct NG names. The OP and several subsequent
posters attempted to send their posts to uk.Transport.LonDon, which is
not recognised by many news servers which treat NG names as
case-sensitive.
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Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)