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So says the South London Press:
CROSS RIVER TRAM HOPE FROM BORIS AID [sic] TRAM campaigners have been given fresh hope after the Mayor’s top transport advisor was reported as saying it would be “top of the list” when they next lobbied for Government funding. Hopes for a Cross River Tram (CRT), which would link Peckham and Brixton with King’s Cross north of the river, were dashed when Mayor Boris Johnson announced there was not enough cash for the project in November. But at a committee meeting, as part of the State of London debate on Saturday, Kulveer Ranger, the Mayor’s director of transport policy, told the audience Mr Johnson was “keen to see the CRT going forward and it would be top of his list” when he next asked the Government for funding. London Assembly member Caroline Pidgeon, chairwoman of the transport committee, said: “I wrote it down because I thought ‘I can’t believe he just said that’. “In response to a question, Kulveer Ranger said Boris would like to see the CRT going forward and it would be top of his list for lobbying the Government for funding. “So I am writing to Boris and Kulveer to ask for clarification of what they mean by that, because it’s the first I have ever heard of it. “But that’s what Kulveer said and he is Boris’s key transport advisor.” Phil Bale, chairman of residents’ group Evolution Quarter Residents’ Association, who lobbied for the tram to come to Peckham, said: “It’s nice to hear some positive news about the tram for once, but we need some clarification of what Kulveer Ranger said.” http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/tn...%20Boris%20aid |
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