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Title: Boris Johnson forgets about ^10m station Post by: Chris from Nailsea on June 11, 2010, 21:28:28 I'm posting this in 'the lighter side' - but clearly, for those more closely involved, it isn't particularly funny. ::)
From News Shopper (http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/8213257.NEW_CROSS__Boris_Johnson_forgets_about___10m_station/): Quote Funding for a new ^10m train station is still no clearer to being confirmed after the Mayor of London admitted forgetting to raise the issue. Boris Johnson had told the London Assembly he would ask the government^s new Transport Secretary Philip Hammond about money for the proposed Surrey Canal Road station in New Cross at their first meeting. But at Mayor^s Question Time Mr Johnson admitted he had not raised the subject at all. Building the station, as part of the East London Line extension^s second phase, is reliant upon the government giving Transport for London ^7m. Liberal Democrat London Assembly Transport Spokeswoman Caroline Pidgeon called the omission ^incredible^. She said afterwards: ^If we don't secure the additional ^7m now this station will be lost for a generation.^ This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |