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Mr Waller has got the main fact right.
Crossrail is not proving to be the right solution for the transport need of London. No wonder, it is struggling to attract spontaneous support.
There are currently 113 objections ['petitions'] against the Crossrail bill deposited in the legislative House of Lords by individuals and groups from across the London region".
Quite a few of those are from the East End of London I am likely to represent one of these, the Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill, objections to the Committee set up in the House of Lords.
Preparations are afoot for a session of robust criticism to be heard in the "Lords" against the seriously flawed scheme.
The un-named MPs in your item should risk being caught doing something that the house of commons has been deprived of for years - breaking party whips and speaking the truth as based on objective evidence.
There could not be a more appropriate time for the 'elected' house of the parliament to show that it has any relevance to the overdue task of holding the executive to account. With a bit of imagination the legislative 'house of lords Crossrail bill select committee' is poised to create a historic precedent - by actually listening to the people on the ground who have sound and sensible things to say that will, if heeded by Gordon Brown even at this stage, save a good deal of pubic money and spare us all a huge environmental folly.
And signs are that this is quite possible, if the first impressions discerned in the behaviour of those Peers who visited the East End and the Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 area on 20 February 2008 looking at sites of some of the proposed Crossrail holes is anything to go by.
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