Richard J. wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
writes
the Government will be trying to maintain the pretence that
Crossrail will be built until shortly after the General Election,
when the proposal will be quietly dropped.

Especially if we fail to get the Olympics.

The Olympics are irrelevant as Crossrail can't be built in time for them
anyway.

Therefore it would be better to withdraw the Olympic bid!

The transport chaos of London hosting Olympics without Crossrail would be
an embarassment, but all London's transport problems are relatively easy
to solve. Even in their simplest, cheapest forms, Crossrail 1 and TL2K
would make it a lot easier to get around as well as solving the
overcrowding problems. Further schemes, including Crossrail 2, would give
London a truly impressive transport system.

Despite the often repeated claims to the contrary, this is not London's
only chance at hosting the Olympics and Stratford is not the only
suitable site in London. I can think of possible alternative sites at
Beckton and Dagenham, and there are probably other alternatives I haven't
thought of.