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News and Comment September 2020

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19 September (Part 1) - A return to Ebbsfleet please

Pie in the skyOver the past week or so Bexley Council has been bleating on again about extending the phantom railway otherwise known as the Elizabeth Line through Slade Green to Ebbsfleet. The image to the left is stolen from the News Shopper, click it for their report, but it must have been from a Press Release, you can find the same thing on KentOnline.

I can’t help thinking that Bexley Council was stupid to not lend their support to the project when they came into office in 2006. It was the time when they were against transport infrastructure. They campaigned for no river crossing and did sweet Fanny Adams about a better railway. Instead they stood by while financial pressures following the 2008 melt down put the Abbey Wood extension in jeopardy.

It was left to the then new MP Teresa Pearce to plead the case for the railway in Parliament, but Bexley Council eventually woke up and now they are boasting about the £4·85 million to be spent on how a Crossrail extension might be achieved.

They first boasted about the money seventeen months ago. The project is not going anywhere fast is it?

When I used to speak to Crossrail engineers almost daily they thought it might happen but not perhaps for 35 years or more, the Harrow Manorway flyover is a major impediment.

The magazine New Civil Engineer reported the same view.

 

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