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.We are asking Boris Johnson to look very carefully at one sentence that has appeared in the report published by the Transport Editor of the London EVEBING Nostandards STANDARD Dick Murray.
That sentence reads as follows
“The Government has already ruled out using funds allocated to the £16 billion Crossrail project, despite transport experts advising that the Tube network upgrade is a higher priority.”
We are also asking Boris Johnson to take a look at what Rod Eddington said about Crossrail.
Eddington was the man appointed by Gordon Brown to do a study of the transport needs of the UK.
His report did NOT recommend CrossRail.
As if there is any doubt about that, Boris Johnson can watch the Channel 4 News report on that as published in October 2007.
Channel 4 news clearly reported that Gordon Brown had given the go ahead to Crossrail against the advice of Rod Eddington.
Then there was the small item earlier this year in PRIVATE EYE , saying that one of Douglas Alexander’s close aides had been working for Bechtel who were the real influence behind Brown’s ‘backing’ for Crossrail
[To be continued]
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-mayor/article-23562139-details/Boris+in+3bn+battle+to+rescue+Tube+upgrade/article.do
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“The Government has already ruled out using funds allocated to the £16 billion Crossrail project, despite transport experts advising that the Tube network upgrade is a higher priority.”
This is unbelievable!
This little sentence contained at the end of a piece hidden in the inner pages of the London EVENBIN nostandards STANDARD is an OPPOSITE statement to literally THOYDSANDS of plugs that the same EVEBING nostandards STANDARD pushed over the period of the past six years…. So crazy had the EVENINGF nostandards STANDARD’s peddling of CrossRail been that KHOODEELAAR! Gave the evidentially valid and accurate description ‘no standards’ to the publication as a regular statement of our view that the publication [the EVEBNING nostandards STANDARD] was wrong to promote CRASSrail and that its backing of CRASSRAIL too was wrong. It should not back Crossrail. We have shown that the EXISTING infrastructure and the existing transport provisions NEEDED a higher priority to be given than CrossRail…
We have argued this case, shown the evidence for it for almost 5 years…now
The EVENING nostandards STANDARD has regularly failed to publish what we have said.. And here, for the first time that we can find, their Transport editor Dick Murray has resurfaced after years of the coverage being given to other ‘writers’ as far as CRASSRAIL is concerned.
And the transport Editor [!!!!] let slip the very 'acknolwedgement' that has been overdue for 6 years….
[To be continued]
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KHOODEELAAR! ADVISING BORIS to get Brown to PRIORITISE existing tube and bus services.....[142]
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KHOODEELAAR! letter to Boris Johnson today will be published here in the next few hours!
[To be continued]
FROM THE LONPON EVENING nostandards STANDARD web site:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-mayor/article-23562139-details/Boris+in+3bn+battle+to+rescue+Tube+upgrade/article.do
"HEADLINES:
PM vows to protect financial system..... Cameron will work with PM on crisis..... Bank takeover terms spark concern..... Gurkhas win right to settle in UK..... ITV News to cut 400 jobs..... Tesco reports 10% profits rise..... Vacuum cleaner sparked ship blaze..... Student's screams of joy at £7m win..... Millions of children 'face poverty'..... Banker died after helping man.....
Boris in £3bn battle to rescue Tube upgrade
Dick Murray, Transport Editor
30.09.08
A major cash crisis threatens the upgrade of the Tube network planned in time for the 2012 Olympics.
Mayor Boris Johnson is demanding the Government provides up to £3 billion of extra funding for the work.
Without it, the project - which includes new tracks, signals and trains - is at risk. The Government has refused to provide the funds, saying that Transport for London should foot the bill.
The Mayor has accused the Government of creating the financial shortfall by imposing the public-private partnership, under which large sections of the Tube were hived off to the private sector on 30-year leases. Mr Johnson says this means the Government is now under a "moral" obligation to pay the extra costs involved resulting from their actions.
He said it was "desperately necessary" for both the London and national economy that the Tube upgrade is completed.
The current cash problems result from last year's collapse of Tube maintenance firm Metronet amid £2billion debt. Metronet has since been taken back under public control through TfL.
Now Tube Lines, the second and remaining private sector consortium, needs at least £1.4 billion in extra funding to complete its scheduled programme of improvements.
Mr Johnson has written to Chancellor Alistair Darling setting out the need for the extra funding. Senior Government sources have ruled out the Chancellor agreeing to any more money.
Hesaid: "The Government is morally responsible for the PPP which it imposed on London and which does nothing to protect fare payers and taxpayers.
"We have done our bit [to raise cash]. We have put up fares by RPI plus one per cent. We have asked Londoners to take the pain and the Government should do its bit."
The Mayor's spokeswoman added: "The prediction that more funding is required by Tube Lines were forecast from the beginning of these contracts, yet roundly ignored by the Government."
Former mayor Ken Livingstone failed in two High Court attempts to prevent the PPP, devised by Gordon Brown as Chancellor, from going ahead.
The Government has already ruled out using funds allocated to the £16 billion Crossrail project, despite transport experts advising that the Tube network upgrade is a higher priority.
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Reader Views (3) Add your view
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Actually Georgie 'Red Ken' fought tooth and nail to oppose the PPP on the tube.
- Richard, London
The P-P-P was a total farce from the start. Everyone said so, but still Brown pushed ahead. With Tube Lines and Metronet eating up £3.5billion with virtually no noticeable improvement, Brown is the one who should be made to answer. Everything the man has touched over the last 11 years, including his laissez-faire attitude to bank lending, is coming back to haunt him.
- Phil Jones, London UK
Red Ken and his Nu Labor freaks have left a fine mess.
- Georgie, Islington, London.
KHOODEELAAR! letter to Boris Johnson today will be published here in the next few hours!
[To be continued]
FROM THE LONPON EVENING nostandards STANDARD web site:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-mayor/article-23562139-details/Boris+in+3bn+battle+to+rescue+Tube+upgrade/article.do
"HEADLINES:
PM vows to protect financial system..... Cameron will work with PM on crisis..... Bank takeover terms spark concern..... Gurkhas win right to settle in UK..... ITV News to cut 400 jobs..... Tesco reports 10% profits rise..... Vacuum cleaner sparked ship blaze..... Student's screams of joy at £7m win..... Millions of children 'face poverty'..... Banker died after helping man.....
Boris in £3bn battle to rescue Tube upgrade
Dick Murray, Transport Editor
30.09.08
A major cash crisis threatens the upgrade of the Tube network planned in time for the 2012 Olympics.
Mayor Boris Johnson is demanding the Government provides up to £3 billion of extra funding for the work.
Without it, the project - which includes new tracks, signals and trains - is at risk. The Government has refused to provide the funds, saying that Transport for London should foot the bill.
The Mayor has accused the Government of creating the financial shortfall by imposing the public-private partnership, under which large sections of the Tube were hived off to the private sector on 30-year leases. Mr Johnson says this means the Government is now under a "moral" obligation to pay the extra costs involved resulting from their actions.
He said it was "desperately necessary" for both the London and national economy that the Tube upgrade is completed.
The current cash problems result from last year's collapse of Tube maintenance firm Metronet amid £2billion debt. Metronet has since been taken back under public control through TfL.
Now Tube Lines, the second and remaining private sector consortium, needs at least £1.4 billion in extra funding to complete its scheduled programme of improvements.
Mr Johnson has written to Chancellor Alistair Darling setting out the need for the extra funding. Senior Government sources have ruled out the Chancellor agreeing to any more money.
Hesaid: "The Government is morally responsible for the PPP which it imposed on London and which does nothing to protect fare payers and taxpayers.
"We have done our bit [to raise cash]. We have put up fares by RPI plus one per cent. We have asked Londoners to take the pain and the Government should do its bit."
The Mayor's spokeswoman added: "The prediction that more funding is required by Tube Lines were forecast from the beginning of these contracts, yet roundly ignored by the Government."
Former mayor Ken Livingstone failed in two High Court attempts to prevent the PPP, devised by Gordon Brown as Chancellor, from going ahead.
The Government has already ruled out using funds allocated to the £16 billion Crossrail project, despite transport experts advising that the Tube network upgrade is a higher priority.
Link to:
Reader Views (3) Add your view
Here's a sample of the latest views published. You can click view all to read all views that readers have sent in.
Actually Georgie 'Red Ken' fought tooth and nail to oppose the PPP on the tube.
- Richard, London
The P-P-P was a total farce from the start. Everyone said so, but still Brown pushed ahead. With Tube Lines and Metronet eating up £3.5billion with virtually no noticeable improvement, Brown is the one who should be made to answer. Everything the man has touched over the last 11 years, including his laissez-faire attitude to bank lending, is coming back to haunt him.
- Phil Jones, London UK
Red Ken and his Nu Labor freaks have left a fine mess.
- Georgie, Islington, London.
CRASS behaviour by Big Business-serving Brown-fronted regime that is beholden to Big Business, neglecting existing transport needs... [140]
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KHOODEELAAR! the ethical action against "Big Business lying scam the London Crossrail hole plot..." TOLD YOU SO! That CRASSrail hole scam agenda-setting Big Business elements had corrupted and stooged the Brown-fronted B;aired regime so comprehensively that even when there is ample evidence of the EXISTING ‘pubic transport’ network in London being in desperate state of disrepair and thus affecting the travelling needs of millions, they are treating CRASSrail as a cult... And that they are doing so according to the CRASSrail hole plot plugging GUARDIAN and its dedicated CRASSrail scam-peddler dan Milmo..... [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! the ethical action against "Big Business lying scam the London Crossrail hole plot..." TOLD YOU SO! That CRASSrail hole scam agenda-setting Big Business elements had corrupted and stooged the Brown-fronted B;aired regime so comprehensively that even when there is ample evidence of the EXISTING ‘pubic transport’ network in London being in desperate state of disrepair and thus affecting the travelling needs of millions, they are treating CRASSrail as a cult... And that they are doing so according to the CRASSrail hole plot plugging GUARDIAN and its dedicated CRASSrail scam-peddler dan Milmo..... [To be continued]