Guardian Media Group has AGAIN published crass sum as cost of CROSSRAIL
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Ministers back 200mph rail link
Neal Keeling
March 11, 2009
MINISTERS have signalled support for plans for a `Crossrail of the North' which will slash rail journey times between Manchester and Leeds to just 25 minutes.
Transport Minister Lord Adonis has asked a company to draw up proposals for extending high-speed services into Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, the North East, and Scotland.
Originally, the company, High Speed 2 (HS2), was created to develop the case for high-speed trains services between London and Scotland and from the capital to Birmingham.
On Monday, the M.E.N revealed how 200mph trains would run on high-speed tracks cutting through the Pennines would drastically reduce the journey time.
We told how the region's MPs had apparently met Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon to lobby for more cash and that the matter would be raised in Parliament by Manchester Blackley MP Graham Stringer.
Lord Adonis said: "If the regions share my view of the benefits high-speed rail will bring then they need to help HS2 understand the business case for bringing high speed services to their communities."
Beverley Hughes, Stretford and Urmston MP, and regional minister for the North West, said: "The benefits high-speed rail could bring to our region should not be underestimated."
North West MPs have been frustrated at regional inequalities in transport - especially the £6bn being spent on the Crossrail scheme to link east and west London.
HS2 will report by the end of the year with a proposed route from London to the West Midlands. Discussions about the extension to the north will follow and the Greater Manchester link could be ready in just over a decade.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential comment on callousness that dominates the ‘journalistic and editorial environment’ at the ‘London Guardian’
0910 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 11 March 2009:
CRASSness of Crossrail.
The Guardian news organisation [now firmly associated with ‘London and thus Metropolitan posts-occupiers’ politics’, in effect denying and undermining its Manchester AND NORTHERN ORIGINS] cited contradictory sums as London Crossrail costs. Now the Guardian Media Group's [=GMG] Manchester Evening News [=’MEN’] is doing the same..
It has published today the cost of London Crossrail as £6 Billion.. Thus slashing... the cost by a mere £10 Billion. In pointing this out, KHOODEELAAR! is also exposing the culture of callousness that dominates the ‘journalistic and editorial environment’ at the ‘London Guardian’ and within the Guardian Media Group... Perhaps the concept of CUTS that currently applies to just under 200 employees of the GMG in Manchester is catching on... they are extending the idea of cuts to Crossrail!
Which would be a very welcome thing indeed.
That could only happen if the Guardian began to tell the truth about the wastefulness of Crossrail....On current showing, the sum of £6 Billions mentioned in the Manchester Evening News item about Crossrail appears to be a mere error...
[To be continued]
CRASSness of Crossrail.
The Guardian news organisation [now firmly associated with ‘London and thus Metropolitan posts-occupiers’ politics’, in effect denying and undermining its Manchester AND NORTHERN ORIGINS] cited contradictory sums as London Crossrail costs. Now the Guardian Media Group's [=GMG] Manchester Evening News [=’MEN’] is doing the same..
It has published today the cost of London Crossrail as £6 Billion.. Thus slashing... the cost by a mere £10 Billion. In pointing this out, KHOODEELAAR! is also exposing the culture of callousness that dominates the ‘journalistic and editorial environment’ at the ‘London Guardian’ and within the Guardian Media Group... Perhaps the concept of CUTS that currently applies to just under 200 employees of the GMG in Manchester is catching on... they are extending the idea of cuts to Crossrail!
Which would be a very welcome thing indeed.
That could only happen if the Guardian began to tell the truth about the wastefulness of Crossrail....On current showing, the sum of £6 Billions mentioned in the Manchester Evening News item about Crossrail appears to be a mere error...
[To be continued]