On Jan 19, 11:17*pm, Mizter T wrote:
Anyway don't think anyone's got any money for stuff like this at the
moment... unless that ghost of Keynes who's been hovering around
somewhat lately starts visiting Brown & co in their dreams in
earnest...

The DfT seem to have magiced £54 millon extra for the four tracking at
Camden Road from somewhere

The NLL upgrade was agreed a while back before the Treasury realised
that the dour and miserly bankers at RBS has taken magic mushrooms
before making their investment decisions. Also the NLL upgrade around
Camden was reduced in scope anyway, when it was realised that some of
the works would cost too much.

And then re-scoped back up, possibly following a visit from the ghost
of Keynes.

If there is any money emanating from the DfT any time soon then I
would very much hope it is for making phase 2 of the East London Line
Extension happen - apparently the funding gap is £15 million, which is
not a great deal in the grand scheme of things with regards to rail
projects. But time is running out - I think the costings all revolve
around the current ELLX construction venture continuing on to build
phase 2. I think it would cost significantly more to set it all up
again from a cold start.

They've got a good couple of years before the current venture comes to
an end - remember the northern part of Phase II (as was) is now part
of Phase I, but won't be built until (mumble shortly before Olympics
mumble).

On the original Croxley point, there was an expectation/plan that TfL
would chip in for the benefit of the reasonably sizeable number of
people who live in Greater-London-Metroland but work in Watford.

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