Thread: TfL £5Bn short for Crossrail
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Old May 27th 08, 06:09 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit
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Default TfL £5Bn short for Crossrail
On Tue, 27 May 2008 15:18:55 +0100, James Farrar
wrote:

On Tue, 27 May 2008 06:47:09 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On 25 May, 07:53, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 07:46:19 on Sun, 25
May 2008, Martin Edwards remarked:

Also it is debatable whether Luton or Stanstead are actually in the
London area. *The names are a product of London's self-obsession and
the international obsession with it.

Luton qualifies under your description (even though it's as well
connected to London as Gatwick and arguably better than Stansted) but
Stansted is the official "third London Airport".

Surely Luton isn't closer to London than Stansted is? I'd have thought
they were about equi-distant.

Luton looks to be about 5 miles closer than Stansted.

According to DirectGov journey planner:-
To Charing Cross from -
Stansted 40.8 miles
Lu'on 34.7
Gatwick 29.4
Thiefrow 17.4
Northolt 14.1
London City 8.6
Apparently DirectGov doesn't cater for flying crows so the shorter
journeys possibly have an increasing distance error.
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