KHOODEELAAR! using a phrase from PRIVATE EYE! ‘Just fancy that!’ prompted by the Guardian’s CRASS Role player Dan Milmo being at it again!

KHOODEELAAR! using a phrase from PRIVATE EYE! ‘Just fancy that!’. prompted by the Guardian’s CRASS Role player Dan Milmo being at it again!

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Dan Milmo, transport correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 January 2009 14.29 GMT
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London Underground is to axe 1,000 jobs this year as part of a drive to slash costs by £2.4bn.

Transport for London, the mayor's transport authority, warned last year that hundreds of jobs were under threat as it balances its books to pay for the £16bn Crossrail project and to plug a multibillion funding gap in the tube network.

London Underground said no tube drivers or frontline staff would be affected by the cuts, which it hopes to achieve through a hiring freeze or dropping contract workers.

The announcement shocked trade union leaders, who are already campaigning against more than 1,500 job cuts by rail franchise owners.

Speaking in November last year the London Mayor, Boris Johnson, defended his decision to shelve £3.5bn of transport schemes in the capital, including the Thames Gateway bridge. Warning that job cuts were also on the way, he said: "These cuts need to be seen in the context of the biggest investment in London transport for a generation."

However, Johnson has also admitted to writing to the Treasury and demanding further money to plug a funding gap in the underground network, implying that a recent £39bn settlement up to 2017 will not be enough to cover TfL's spending requirements.
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