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Tom Anderson wrote:

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Peter Masson wrote:

"Tom Anderson" wrote

No, Crossrail should stop at Slough, and concentrate on being an
affordable and effective suburban railway, and not a pie-in-the-sky all
things to all people scheme.

Crossrail will go to Maidenhead, Heathrow, Shenfield, and Abbey Wood.
Any strong pressure to change any of these destinations is more likely
to mean that Crossrail doesn't happen at all than that changes will be
made.

Yes. I'm not quite mad enough to argue for changes at this stage - rather,
i point out that the scheme is not optimal. It shouldn't really be going
to the GWML at all - the Waterloo lines would be a much better
destination, but for obscure reasons, they were dropped from consideration
a very long time ago.

How do you come up with that conclusion?

With the city business centre moving eastward it leaves Paddington even
further from many commuters ultimate destination. Waterloo has good links to
both the City and Docklands (the Drain and the Northern and Jubilee Lines)
already.

Also one of the principal objectives of Crossrail is to relieve the pressure
on the Central line, going to Waterloo won't help that.

Though, given that a significant proportion of Crossrail funding was supposed
to come from the banks, I suspect all these discussions are moot anyway.

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