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thedelboy
Discworld


United Kingdom
1401 Posts

Posted - 05/10/2007 :  10:33:02  Show Profile  Send thedelboy a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Red Ken has approved the 16billion pound overhead london rail link,
watch central london public transport costs soar;I feel sorry for the poor london tax payer,screwed again.What is the betting that the cost will not be 16 billion but more like 43billion quid

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Edited by - thedelboy on 05/10/2007 10:34:17

Miriam Binder
Earthsea



United Kingdom
5815 Posts

Posted - 05/10/2007 :  10:35:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Going by the past record of large public projects ... would you mind if I don't take you up on that bet?

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin
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thedelboy
Discworld



United Kingdom
1401 Posts

Posted - 05/10/2007 :  11:03:50  Show Profile  Send thedelboy a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
aww

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FUBAR
Barsoom



425 Posts

Posted - 05/10/2007 :  12:02:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
And very handily it should be finished for the Olympics in 2016.......

I came into the world with nothing and still have most of it left..
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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
6771 Posts

Posted - 05/10/2007 :  12:09:25  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by FUBAR

And very handily it should be finished for the Olympics in 2016.......





You are having a Laugh!
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thedelboy
Discworld



United Kingdom
1401 Posts

Posted - 05/10/2007 :  12:11:36  Show Profile  Send thedelboy a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
work starts 2010 expected completion 2017,very unlikely more like 2027

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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
6771 Posts

Posted - 05/10/2007 :  19:13:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Although some of this is Above ground
much of the central connection has got to go underground
in New Dug out tunnels.
That is why Big Delays - Money Problems
are going to happen.

Sign Of The Times.
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Barsoom



427 Posts

Posted - 05/10/2007 :  19:29:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Isambard kingdom Brunel? Is that you?
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