http://www.standard.co.uk/news/trans...n-9354896.html

Plans to transform central London with a 22-mile-long underground
ring road can be revealed today.

Costing £30 billion to construct, it would remove tens of
thousands of cars from the crowded streets above.

On 2014\05\12 16:29, David Walters wrote:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/trans...n-9354896.html

Plans to transform central London with a 22-mile-long underground
ring road can be revealed today.

Costing £30 billion to construct, it would remove tens of
thousands of cars from the crowded streets above.

So that's why Boris sold his house in Furlong Road...

On 12/05/2014 16:29, David Walters wrote:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/trans...n-9354896.html

Plans to transform central London with a 22-mile-long underground
ring road can be revealed today.

Costing £30 billion to construct, it would remove tens of
thousands of cars from the crowded streets above.


For the sake of comparison, Crossrail is set to cost £15 billion.

In message , at 16:29:30 on
Mon, 12 May 2014, David Walters remarked:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/trans...n-9354896.html

Plans to transform central London with a 22-mile-long underground
ring road can be revealed today.

I wonder how may tube lines it'll cross, and whether over or under.

(Subsurface lines presumably "under")
--
Roland Perry

In article ,
(David Walters) wrote:


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/trans...r-22mile-ringr
oad-tunnel-under-london-9354896.html

Plans to transform central London with a 22-mile-long underground
ring road can be revealed today.

Costing £30 billion to construct, it would remove tens of
thousands of cars from the crowded streets above.

What a hare-brained idea! What would the portals do to their localities and
why would it divert anything from the streets in central London?


This looks like 1960s car insanity to me, likely to generate a lot more
traffic.

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Colin Rosenstiel

On Mon, 12 May 2014 16:29:30 +0100
David Walters wrote:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/trans...22mile-ringroa
-tunnel-under-london-9354896.html

Plans to transform central London with a 22-mile-long underground
ring road can be revealed today.

Costing £30 billion to construct, it would remove tens of
thousands of cars from the crowded streets above.

Sounds like Brussels. ****ing fume filled nightmare last time I drove it
back in the 90s.

--
Spud

wrote in message
...
In article ,

(David Walters) wrote:


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/trans...r-22mile-ringr
oad-tunnel-under-london-9354896.html

Plans to transform central London with a 22-mile-long underground
ring road can be revealed today.

Costing £30 billion to construct, it would remove tens of
thousands of cars from the crowded streets above.

What a hare-brained idea! What would the portals do to their localities
and
why would it divert anything from the streets in central London?

They have it it Brussels

It's a nightmare to drive on (as the on/off ramps are pretty short), but it
seems to work at lessening the traffic on the normal streets

tim

On Mon, 12 May 2014 14:46:55 -0500
wrote:
In article ,
(David Walters) wrote:


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/trans...r-22mile-ringr
oad-tunnel-under-london-9354896.html

Plans to transform central London with a 22-mile-long underground
ring road can be revealed today.

Costing £30 billion to construct, it would remove tens of
thousands of cars from the crowded streets above.

What a hare-brained idea! What would the portals do to their localities and
why would it divert anything from the streets in central London?


This looks like 1960s car insanity to me, likely to generate a lot more
traffic.

Unless its a replacement for the north circular. But frankly the money would
be a lot better spent building a outer circle line for the tube since the
north london line just does not cut the mustard - too slow, trains too
infrequent and **** poor interconnections with the tube.

--
Spud

On Mon, 12 May 2014 19:50:10 +0000 (UTC),
d wrote:
Sounds like Brussels. ****ing fume filled nightmare last time I
drove it
back in the 90s.

Or Birmingham?

Neil

--
Neil Williams. Use neil before the at to reply.

On 2014\05\12 20:46, wrote:
In article ,
(David Walters) wrote:


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/trans...r-22mile-ringr
oad-tunnel-under-london-9354896.html

Plans to transform central London with a 22-mile-long underground
ring road can be revealed today.

Costing £30 billion to construct, it would remove tens of
thousands of cars from the crowded streets above.

What a hare-brained idea! What would the portals do to their localities and
why would it divert anything from the streets in central London?


This looks like 1960s car insanity to me, likely to generate a lot more
traffic.


It'll reduce jams on the M25 though! ;-)