asdf wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:11:20 +0100, John Rowland wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5031222.stm

Your subject line is a little misleading - there are still hurdles to
clear before it goes ahead.

I was a bit shocked by the subject line... I thought given the recent
change in political air in Ealing, TfL would decide to just let the
people of the Uxbridge Road stuff themselves harder into bendy buses and
would switch funding to the much less controversial (popular, even)
Cross River Tram.

As much as I think there is a lot of scaremongering and
statistics-waving over the West London Tram, having local authorities
opposed to an infrastructure scheme is always a bad idea, and they will
cause all sorts of problems for the WLT now.

Incidentally, the news article implies that only Ealing is against the
scheme, when in reality Hamm & Fulham and Hillingdon were already
against the scheme, and Ealing changed opinion recently following the
elections! (including the remaining Labour councillors who were
previously in favour...)

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London