On Sep 24, 9:13*am, allan tracy wrote:

According to Private Eye, the ‘it's all gone quiet’ surrounding the
Crossrail project is due to the treasury having not yet signed off on
it.

Rumour is they won’t either and that the DfT is working furiously on a
cut down cheaper version involving tube size tunnels.

Perhaps with the current financial crisis, it’s not anticipated that
quite so many will be commuting to the City in future years.

This, if true, is fantastic news.

I can't think of a single other project that's so deliberately
destructive of london's history; there was no need to destroy the much
loved Astoria when they could demolish the much despised Centrepoint;
there was no need to totally **** up the tube map when it would be
much more traffic-alleviating to divert the route via green park,
charing cross, aldwych, and then holborn.