How can the CRASSrail hole plot-peddling, lying Guardian now admit that the Tube trains even exist in London?

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EXPOSING the latest Crossrail hole plot Big Business agenda-backing London Guardian newspaper group:

How can the CRASSrail hole plot-peddling, lying Guardian now admit that the Tube trains even exist in London?

After practically OMITTING ALL the existing transport systems and INFRASTRUCTURES in and around London for years during the callous plugs and peddling for CRASSrail in collusion with Ken Livingstone, the Guardian has suddenly discovered that in London there is a thing called the Tube!

Not only that.

But that it needs being spent money on. Things like improvements and maintenance!

This is a surprise indeed!

For over four years the lying Guardian has refused to tell the truth and has refused to publish any KHOODEELAAR! report or comment or view about the fact that CRASSRAIL is an economic, environmental and financial diversion, that it was a wasteful one, that it was much less important than the EXISTING underground transport network....

This is the second publication after the Daily Telegraph, to start admitting the existence of the London underground system ....

KHOODEELAAR! is challenging the Guardian to find one item of analysis that we have published in the past 56 months that they, the Guardian can fault. or that they have shown in print or online in that same 56 months....

If they cannot show it then they must admit they were wrong and they were biased and that they lied....

[To be continued]



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Tube upgrade will not be sidelined by Crossrail, says Johnson
Dan Milmo
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday July 23 2008
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London mayor Boris Johnson warned today that the £16bn Crossrail line must not take priority over a £30bn upgrade of the capital's tube network, amid concerns over the amount of public funding required to cover both transport projects.

Johnson said he was "determined" that the overhaul of the underground system will not be shelved in order to fund Crossrail, which received royal assent from the Queen last night and will begin construction next year for a 2017 opening.

"I am determined that the government will honour its obligation to Londoners," said Johnson.

The mayor added that the tube project was "co-equal" with Crossrail, which will bore train tunnels under central London and carry 200 million passengers per year on a route that stretches from Maidenhead in the west to Shenfield in Essex.

"It would be quite wrong to rob Peter in order to pay Paul. The upgrade of the tube is the most vital thing we can do for Londoners. It is co-equal with Crossrail," he said.

Asked if he would choose the upgrade over the Crossrail project, he said: "I refuse to go into either/or conversations because that is completely fruitless."

Speaking at an event to mark the formal royal assent for the Crossrail bill this morning, Johnson said Londoners had been "promised" the upgrades by the government and expect the tube to improve over the next decade.

However, funding of the upgrades is in doubt following the collapse of Metronet, one of the companies charged with carrying out the work under the world's biggest public private partnership.

Metronet ran up a projected overspend of at least £2bn and the remaining PPP contractor, Tube Lines, is negotiating the funding settlement for its next round of work between 2010 and 2017.

According to senior sources, Tube Lines could be facing a funding gap of a similar scale to Metronet's. The PPP contract referee, Chris Bolt, is due to publish his report on Tube Lines' financial needs for 2010 to 2017 next month. The mayor's transport body, Transport for London, requested the assessment after becoming concerned that both sides are too far apart on how much funding Tube Lines needs.

The funding for the tube upgrades and TfL's contribution to building Crossrail must come from a £39bn funding settlement from the Department for Transport, which covers all of TfL's budgetary requirements up to 2017. TfL and the Greater London Authority have pledged £7.7bn to Crossrail, but one senior transport source told the Guardian in May that the settlement, negotiated by Johnson's predecessor Ken Livingstone, underestimated the tube costs.

It is understood that around £10bn is needed to cover the PPP work due to be carried out between 2010 and 2017, which includes new signalling systems on the Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines. The £39bn must also cover the costs of TfL's bus network, which requires an annual subsidy of £500m.

Peter Hendy, London's transport commissioner, said today that TfL expected the work to be carried out, even if the funding situation remains undecided.

"It has always been the case that the money associated with the PPP was unclear after 2010. What the mayor is relying on strongly is that the government's commitment is to all the tube upgrades.

"Much of the capital equipment is shot and the trains are old. Most of the major work on these upgrades is in the period to 2017 and Boris Johnson expects it to funded and carried out," he said.

Hendy admitted to London Assembly members earlier this year that TfL did not know whether the £39bn would cover the next phase of the tube upgrade. TfL expects to complete a financial assessment of its tube plans, including those of TfL-owned Metronet, by the autumn.

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