KHOODEELAAR! Is telling Joan Ruddock [MP] and London Assembly pastiche Val Shawcross to quit faking it for Crossrail and CONCENTRATE instead on getting the funding for vital local transport needs... [To be continued]

From the web site of Regeneration and Renewal

http://www.regen.net/news/ByDiscipline/Transport/1025853/Villiers-rules-7m-contribution-new-Lewisham-station/


The Department for Transport has ruled out providing a £7 million contribution towards the costs of building a new London Overground station in south London considered key to a proposed 2,000 home development around Millwall's New Den football ground.

In a letter to Labour London Assembly transport spokeswoman Val Shawcross, seen by Regeneration & Renewal, transport minister Theresa Villiers said that the DfT would not provide funding for the proposed Surrey Canal Road station in Lewisham.
Villiers wrote: "Given the current financial restrictions under which the department is operating, the remaining uncertainty regarding the redevelopment of the area and the relatively weak business case for the scheme even with the development in place, I have concluded that we cannot provide the £7 million support required to build this new station."
The station would have been built on the second phase of the East London Line, which is intended run from south of Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction from 2012.
The station is considered crucial to a 12.1ha development proposed by developer Renewal, which in July unveiled plans for up to 2,000 new homes, as well as new shops and public spaces. But Renewal’s director Mark Taylor has previously said that the scheme can be delivered without the station.

Alan Smith, Labour deputy mayor of Lewisham and cabinet member for regeneration, said: "We are hugely disappointed that central government has decided that the Surrey Canal area is not worthy of a contribution of funding. This shows how short-sighted and poorly thought-out savings can be, as building the station after the line is operational will lead to much higher costs.

"A station at Surrey Canal Road will make a vital contribution to regenerating the north of the borough. For these reasons we will endeavour to find a way around this major letdown, as we believe this station would provide a vital boost to investment in the New Cross area."

KHOODEELAAR! pointing out the Crassness of the Crassrail-touting BBC. It carries out its very own reshuffle in the CONDEM cabinet, promoting “Transport Minister of State” Theresa Villiers to Secretary of State. No word yet on what the BBC has done to Phillip Hammond! Probably pushed him into the Debt hole CrossRail created!

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08 September 2010

Editor © Muhammad Haque

KHOODEELAAR! pointing out the Crassness of the Crassrail-touting BBC. It carries out its very own reshuffle in the CONDEM cabinet, promoting “Transport Minister of State” Theresa Villiers to Secretary of State. No word yet on what the BBC has done to Phillip Hammond! Probably pushed him into the Debt hole CrossRail created!

We are doing this to show again that the BBC’s ‘journalism’ is seriously flawed, especially when it comes to touting for vested interests, Big Business and that the agenda that the BBC follows is an unsustainable, untruthful agenda.

The resources that the BBC has put into promoting wrongful objects have been considerable. The damage to society that the BBC’s failures and bias against the truth have caused is enormous.

This applies across the board and covers all aspects of the BBC’s coverage.

In peddling the Big Business agenda scam Crossrail the BBC has shown its crass disregard for the truth many times over the apst seven years.

It has never published the truth about the many lies that the peddlers of the agenda operating via the ‘City of London’ have told. Equally the BBC has never published the truth about the depth of problems that have existed in the London transport network especially in the Tube system. Nor has the BBC reported on the hundreds of submissions made against Crossrail to the Mps committee [which itself was a stooged committee as their conduct has shown] by people from the areas affected by the CrossRail scam.

Whenever the BBC has deigned to ‘acknowledge’ the opposition to the Big Biz agenda scam Crossrail, it has done so tokenistically and to suppress the ordinary people and to reinforce the oppressive undemocratic unaccountable status quo of the ‘established’ political line.

In the texts of the BBC online report we reproduce below, the BBC has ‘promoted’ Theresa Villiers to the post that is actually held by Phillip Hammond.

The BBC may later say it was an error. How could this be?

If the BBC cared for accuracy then there would have been a practice in place whereby they would have detected by now – nearly five hours after the online item was published at

“8 September 2010 Last updated at 12:07” – that there was this error. But they have not corrected that error.

How many others such ‘small’ inaccuracies are they allowing remaining on and as the record?

[To be continued]

8 September 2010 Last updated at 12:07

Thames Gateway 'key to economic recovery', says report

The Thames Gateway area stretches from east London into Kent and Essex

Councils and business leaders have urged the government not to cut funding from major transport infrastructure projects in the Thames Gateway.

The Thames Gateway London Partnership said that projects planned for the area should not be hit by government spending cuts.
Its Staying on Track report said that cuts to projects such as Crossrail would be "a damaging false economy".
The Thames Gateway area stretches from east London into Kent and Essex.
The report called for Crossrail to be completed in its entirety and on time.
Crossrail 'doubts' It is proposed that the 72-mile (116km) route, due to begin service by 2017, will connect Maidenhead, Berkshire, with Shenfield in Essex via the West End and Canary Wharf, with a link to Heathrow Airport.
In the report, Shadow Transport Secretary Sadiq Khan raised concerns that "doubts are emerging about whether Crossrail will survive in its entirety".
In May, London Mayor Boris Johnson said the branch of the line stretching from Canary Wharf to Abbey Wood, in south-east London, could be threatened under the new government.
But Transport Secretary Theresa Villiers said the government was "absolutely clear that investment in our transport infrastructure is essential for economic growth".
The report also called on the government to invest in a High Speed Two (HS2) railway link to Stratford station, in east London, and to invest in major river crossings in the region.