The board of Crossrail has moved closer to finalising a preferred route for the high-speed, cross-London rail link.
Cross London Rail Links, a joint venture between Transport for London and the Strategic Rail Authority, held a board meeting yesterday to confirm that they will put proposals for the core of the scheme – with stations at Paddington, Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon, Liverpool Street and Whitechapel – to government before the new year.
However, it is understood that the board’s concerns that the final route will have to be “feasible from both operation and engineering points of view, environmentally acceptable and affordable” could squeeze the project.
Constraints on the amount of money that will come from the public purse and concerns about how much the private sector can raise could lead to the first phase of the rail-link being little more than the tunnel from Paddington to Whitechapel.
See Saturday’s Estates Gazette for the full version of this story.
EGi News 22/11/02
