KHOODEELAAR! Diagnosing the latest state of fabrication and dishonesty about transport in and by the London EVENING STANDARD!

 

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09 July 2010

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The nation’s economy needs a new Tube

Evening Standard comment
09.07.10

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As the Department of Transport faces savage budget cuts, it appears that funding for Crossrail is safe. But the suggestion that the Tube will have to bear the brunt of cuts is alarming.

With projected Tube upgrades already running behind schedule, a big cut in funding would be disastrous. Overcrowding, heat and antiquated signalling systems make the Tube woefully inadequate to serve a capital of London's size. Already the upgrades have taken far too long, with the schedule held up by the collapsed Public Private Partnership. Business leaders warn that failure to invest in the Tube will have real impacts on London's economy.
There is little scope for raising the shortfall from ticket prices: already, fares are rising next January ahead of inflation and are likely to continue to do so regardless of central government cuts. Nor is it easy to see how TfL could make up the difference from cuts elsewhere: it is already imposing swingeing efficiency savings, while deep cuts to the bus budget would hurt both the suburbs and the inner-London poor hardest.
London must take its share of cuts: that will inevitably mean slower and less ambitious Tube upgrades. But cuts so deep that they threaten the whole future of the project would be completely counter-productive. London will be the motor of the nation's recovery, and anything that damages its economy will end up hurting the provinces too. Transport Secretary Philip Hammond must convince the Chancellor that such cuts would be self-defeating.

Pensions crunch

Public sector pensions have been the focus of recent concern but they are part of a wider pensions crisis. Most private employers have now ended final-salary schemes, while others stagger under the weight of pension obligations. In this respect, the Government's mooted change to pension index-linking could be positive. But it is unlikely to please those who depend on final salary pensions.
The issue may appear technical but it could have a significant effect over time on pensioners' income. Private schemes are legally required to be index-linked, to prevent pensioners' incomes being eroded by inflation. Existing legislation stipulates that they be linked to the Retail Price Index, usually higher than the alternative Consumer Price Index because it includes house prices.
The Government proposes to change the law to link pensions instead to the CPI. This would help company schemes by meaning they pay out less, thereby improving their health at a stroke.
It would, however, reduce the monthly increase in pensioners' incomes. The difference would be small but cumulative: over 20 years, the change could erode income by as much as 25 per cent. Few pensioners pay mortgages, and CPI may thus be a better reflection of the price rises they face. That is unlikely to make a drop in income more palatable. Moreover, if house prices fall, CPI-linked pensions could end up costing employers more.
Ministers are right to be concerned about the burden of pensions on companies — but these measures risk angering a large constituency.

Khoodeelaar! Updating our diagnostics of and on the London crassly edited 'EVENING STANDARD '. In the past eight years, the EVENING STANDARD has published lies after lies for big biz scam Crossrail. Never once has it [the London “evening no standards standard”] mentioned in the same item about Crossrail any aspect let alone the full subject of the London underground. So persistent has the standardless ‘EVENING STANDARD ’ been in its touting for big biz Crossrail that any ‘reader’ looking randomly at its promotion of big biz interest scam would not know that the standard even recognised the existence of the overwhelmingly more important London underground networks. And any reader who did not know London would not know that there was any transport provisions s in place in London at all! And that Crossrail would be the first transport line in London! The lying record of the Evening nostandards STANDARD is exposed today in the outlet’s item we reproduce below. We shall continue to diagnose the corrupting role played by the EVENING STANDARD , which is a disgrace and a disservice. We shall cite examples from its [The standardless ‘EVENING STANDARD’] current and recent and historic behaviour of perniciously lying in and about and to ordinary people in London. [To be continued]

1525 Hrs GMT
London
Friday
09 July 2010


Editor © Muhammad Haque

Khoodeelaar! Updating our diagnostics of and on the London crassly edited 'EVENING STANDARD '. 

In the past eight years, the EVENING STANDARD  has published lies after lies for big biz scam Crossrail. Never once has it [the London “evening no standards standard”] mentioned in the same item about Crossrail any aspect let alone the full subject of the London underground. So persistent has the standardless ‘EVENING STANDARD ’ been in its touting for big biz Crossrail that any ‘reader’ looking randomly at its promotion of big biz interest scam would not know that the standard even recognised the existence of the overwhelmingly more important London underground networks. 

And any reader who did not know London would not know that there was any transport provisions s in place in London at all! 

And that Crossrail would be the first transport line in London! The lying record of the Evening nostandards STANDARD is exposed today in the outlet’s item we reproduce below. We shall continue to diagnose the corrupting role played by the EVENING STANDARD , which is a disgrace and a disservice. 

We shall cite examples from its [The standardless ‘EVENING STANDARD’] current and recent and historic behaviour of perniciously lying in and about and to ordinary people in London. 

[To be continued]

 from the EVENING STANDARD website at 1530 GMT London Friday 09 July 2010:

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“Intolerable”: business leaders warn that cancelling Tube upgrades would leave passengers to endure hot and crowded conditions

Tube upgrades face axe as coalition spares Crossrail

Pippa Crerar, City Hall Editor
09.07.10

• ES comment: The nation’s economy needs a new Tube

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London's Underground system today emerged as a key target for Treasury spending cuts.

Crucial upgrades to the network could be in danger if Chancellor George Osborne insists on squeezing 25 to 40 per cent from the transport budget.
Transport secretary Philip Hammond is understood to be submitting proposals for cuts to the Treasury next week - a fortnight ahead of a deadline - for the summer-long comprehensive spending review.
Sources said he will not downsize the £16 billion Crossrail project, but business leaders fear this leaves Tube upgrades exposed.
Business leaders today warned that cancelling upgrades would undermine the capital's economy. A report by business group London First forecast "intolerable" conditions on the Tube in 2026 if the cuts were made. It claimed:
Temperatures could soar to 32C, breaking EU limits for transporting livestock, let alone people.
The 10-mile journey from Tooting Broadway to Canary Wharf on the Northern line could take an hour to complete as a result of delays caused by overcrowding.
The ticket barrier at Victoria station would shut every six minutes, for two minutes at a time, to maintain safety because of severe over-crowding.
Every passenger using Bond Street station would have to add an extra 10 minutes to their journey to push through overcrowded platforms and escalators.
Baroness Valentine, chief executive of London First, said: "Without the Tube's modernisation alongside Crossrail, London's ability to accommodate jobs, population and new economic activity will grind to a halt, to the detriment of the whole country. Passengers will no longer tolerate the conditions. It may take a generation, it may be too slow to see by the eye, but it will happen, and our hard won status as a world city will slowly slip from our hands."
Experts say the Tube is vulnerable as it takes up such a large share of the £14billion budget at the Department for Transport, which the Institute for Fiscal Studies says is likely to suffer 33per cent cuts. Almost a third of the department's annual budget goes to Transport for London. Upgrades are planned for the Northern and Piccadilly lines. An upgrade of the Jubilee line is now due to be completed by October.

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OMG this is exactly where we shoudl be spending in a down term. I think we may voted in a bunch of ameteurs.

- Adrian, London, 09/07/2010 16:09
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They could start by cutting the wretched announcements now plaguing the tube. It's one thing we really don't need and would at least give us a bit of peace and quiet as we swelter...

- rover, London NW2, 09/07/2010 15:59
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"A report by business group London First forecast "intolerable" conditions on the Tube in 2026 if the cuts were made".
No doubt, with the inevitable increase in projected population. So now is high time to reduce pressure on our transport and infrastructure in general by AT LAST grasping the nettle of the huge problem of our imported populations.
Stop immigration, start repatriation, and we're on the way to a solution - including to that of the so-called "housing problem" - without any eye-watering investments.

- Croyboy, Croydon, UK, 09/07/2010 15:04
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Intolerable in 2026

It is now - crowded, hot and trains too full to get on. That's intolerable now.

We need workers to be fresh when they get to work, not tired so we need improvements to the tube urgently

- Steve, Redhill, 09/07/2010 14:49
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The upgrading of the tube should be more of a priority than the building of Crossrail. It would not be a great suprise if Crossrail was very late and very over budget given it's complexity.

- Richard, Hoxton, 09/07/2010 14:14
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Sounds like a great plan, cut spending on the transport and schools budget to save the economy and then spend three times as much in 10 years time on the same projects and end up with the same level of debt.

- W6, London, 09/07/2010 14:05
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Fred when you get a bunch of no hopers in government what can you expect? Call me Dave, moron Gove (only 22 mistakes), Nick the bag carrier, Vince "watch me dance all the way to Lords" Cable, Ken Clarke......oh this list goes on and on. Not forgetting Beaker the token ginger one.

- Derek Porter, London, UK, 09/07/2010 13:59
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Are the CrossRail trains going to have air-con? Please makesure they do...

Any chance we could get some on the tube as well?

Never understood why the Bakerloo line wasn't extended to the South East, like via Elephant to Deptford, perhaps under the existing road network like New Kent/ OLd Kent road?

- James, London, 09/07/2010 13:56
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Rather than the punishment taxes that government wants to lay at the door of London institutionals perhaps direct "donations" into the coffers of LUL. At least that way those that benefit most from London's improved transport infrastructure can see their money working for them rather then dissappear down the dark corridors fo Whitehall.

- Paula Griffin, South London, 09/07/2010 13:47
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Perhaps Govt will now follow through on pledge to remove management consultants from the public sector and replace the expensive consultants managing CrossRail (whose costs don't seem to appear on TfL's headcount) with equally effective but much cheaper in house managers.

All of the expensive consultants on the CrossRail project can, in the current recession, be replaced by directly employed managers saving us taxpayers many millions.

- John, Berks, 09/07/2010 13:46
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Hmm, time for a strike by long-suffering tube passengers, methinks - and/or an undertaking that call-me-Dave's lot will alwauys travel by tube when mvoing around London.

- sallyp, London, England, 09/07/2010 13:42
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these people are nuts. labour's deficit-cutting plans were adequate. it's good to spend on infrastructure in a recession - you get it cheaper, and you sustain businesses that would otherwise go under. someone needs to tell the treasury to put good economic sense ahead of ideology

- fred, london, england, 09/07/2010 13:41
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