Big Business propaganda outlets are continuing to show CRASSrail as a link between Heathrow and canary Wharf-- thus proving KHOODEELAAR! right!

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KHOODEELAAR! No to Big Business CRASSrail hole plot... CAMPAIGN TOLD YOU SO! That Big Business is incompetent, unaccountable, undemocratic, anti-public, pro-profiteering conglomerates, corrupt, corrupting and engenders lies and lying and looting of the public......This is evident in the latest output [Friday 22 August 2008 quoted below this KHOODEELAAR! commentary] by the Big Business propaganda operative Bloomberg [NY USA] They even have a London-based reporter who is called LIE-SAID! Bryan Liesaid....Bryan LIESAID has NEVER once recognised the existence of the people of London... For years Bryan Liesaid has lied for Big business CRASSrail hole scam.....[To be continued]

"Fluor, Balfour Chosen to Bid for Crossrail Project (Update2)
By Scott Hamilton and Brian Lysaght

Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Fluor Corp., Balfour Beatty Plc and Capita Group Plc were picked as candidates to manage the building of the 16 billion-pound ($30 billion) Crossrail link across southeast England.

Laing O'Rourke Group and Bechtel Corp. are also finalists for the position of delivery partner, which will require boring a 21-kilometer (13-mile) rail tunnel under central London, the U.K. government body promoting the project said in an e-mailed statement late yesterday.

Crossrail, Europe's largest construction job, will be the biggest U.K. infrastructure project since the Channel Tunnel was completed in 1994. The east-west link will ease the strain on the capital's aging train network by connecting Heathrow airport, the West End shopping district and the Canary Wharf office complex. Construction work on the 118-kilometer link will start next year and it's due to open in 2017.

As well as Bechtel and Laing O'Rourke, Balfour will bid along with Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. in a joint venture called Legacy 3, the government agency Cross London Rail Links Ltd. said in yesterday's statement. Capita will tender with London- based NNN Ltd., a builder also known as Northcroft.

Fluor is in a group called Flare, which includes Ove Arup & Partners Ltd. and EC Harris LLP.

Building Work

A separate list of companies chosen as candidates for the job of program partner, who will coordinate the various project participants, includes Mouchel Group Plc, Bechtel and Legacy 3. It also includes a venture called Transcend, which is made up of Aecom Technology Corp., CH2M HILL Cos. and Nichols Group.

The delivery partner will handle the building work, while the program partner will provide project-management services.

Successful bidders will be chosen toward the end of the year, CLRL said.

Balfour rose 15.75 pence, or 3.9 percent, to close at 417.75 pence in London. Capita Group gained 11.5 pence, or 1.6 percent, to 719 pence. Mouchel added 1.2 percent to 391.5 pence. Fluor Corp. advanced 0.9 percent to $78.80 as of 12:14 p.m. in New York

Bechtel, the closely held San Francisco-based builder that constructed the Channel Tunnel, was hired in 2005 to oversee the design phase of Crossrail.

Laing O'Rourke, Britain's biggest closely held builder, and Denver-based CH2M HILL are partners in a venture overseeing the building of an 80,000-seat Olympic stadium and athletes' village for London's 2012 games. CH2M HILL is employee-owned.

Crossrail, which aims to get passengers from Heathrow airport to Canary Wharf in 43 minutes, will involve building new terminals at London's Paddington, Tottenham Court Road and Liverpool Street rail stations. The project will be paid for by the government, riders' fares and a tax on business.

CLRL is a joint venture between Transport for London and the government's Department for Transport. Later this year, CLRL will become a subsidiary of TfL.

To contact the reporters on this story: Scott Hamilton in London at shamilton8@bloomberg.net; Brian Lysaght in London at blysaght@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: August 22, 2008 12:17 EDT


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