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Crossrail could bankrupt London - says Ken Livingstone
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Mizter T wrote: On 25 Mar, 16:59, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 16:36:51 on Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Grumpy Old Man remarked: The London 2012 Olympics will cost £18bn, is that essential? Is it even correct? The bill for the infrastructure is £4.8bn The total cost to the public purse is currently estimated at £9.325bn. Source- DCMS December 2007 press release: http://www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_...et_10dec07.htm or via http://tinyurl.com/3bp5dm Is that any less bankrupting then Crossrail? An utter waste of money. And there's an estimated £6Bn benefit, so I'm not as pessimistic as you are. Depends upon how you measure the various benefits of course, and the difficulty of quantifying them in monetary terms. I remain a supporter of the 2012 Games, I think it'll do a lot of good in a great many different ways. Well it will certainly help the pharmaceutical industry and the modern equivalents of CMOT Dibbler but I'm not sure what good a celebration of cheating and corruption is going to do. -- Graeme Wall This address is not read, substitute trains for rail. Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html |
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