WHAT WE LOSE IF WE LOSE CROSSRAIL...

摘要

Not again! It was way back in 1989 when the Central London Rail Study decided that the capital's rail network was at the limit of its capacity, and that an east-west link was needed. A bill was duly tabled in 1991 and duly scrapped three years later. Then, after another 13 years of lobbying, reviews, and mounting evidence that the original study was right, Crossrail began to take shape. After the recession began, it became more than just a way of stopping London seizing up; it became the £16bn saviour of the construction industry.