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Crossrail - How the City wants to rip off Londoners and taxpayers? Just say NO

notocrossrail | 04.09.2007 08:50 | London

Crossrail is a £30 billion substandard rail scheme that is setting itself up to get taxpayers money to fund acquiring land for development and getting a transport scheme that will benefit the City and Canary Wharf - Crossrail has been compared to Eurotunnel by financial transport experts except this time Ken and the City want your money. This Indymedia article tells you who the Crossrail players are, their history of abusing public money and how a City funded propaganda thinktank is trying to use PR to push ahead with plans to rip off taxpayers.. Courtesy of the City and Ken...

The man behind Crossrail is one Adrian Montague? Montague was originally asked to prepare an indepedent report to Crossrail was a good idea, He did and then he was made Chairman of Crossrail. Sir Montague is well versed in abusing taxpayers money - He has been knighted for this through the morally bankrupt honours system. See the following url for Crossrail and how Montague does it -
 http://libcom.org/news/crossrail-and-spitalfields-19112005

The City and the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone want Londoners to fund, pay the operational costs and the interest for the £30 bn Crossrail scheme. However, ordinary Londoners have had enough and can see through the poorly designed scheme.

Due to the fear that the abuse of taxpayers money is becoming too well-known. A City thinktank funded by Lord Sainsbury, the man who wanted to force genetic modification on the public through his Government post. Knighted for this service of abuse. The propaganda is the City will pay - the smallprint is it will be ringfenced and only for a specific time period. There is no such protection for taxpayers. Kindly the City and the Mayor have been offering taxpayers money to convince Brown it is a goer.

Reputable experts who built the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, the Jubilee Line compare Crossrail to planning a garden shed being given a few hints about Crossrail, I started to find out some interesting things. Others like Arup question the Crossrail scheme.
See this website for why Crossrail is bad for London and bad for the UK transport system
 http://www.Superlink.co.uk
The petition hearings for Crossrail show how little democracy there is because the Labour run Select Committee really do not want the Crossrail facts to come out in the open.
 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmcross/uc235-xvi/uc23502.htm
- Mayfair
 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmcross/uc837-lvii/uc83702.htm
- Spitalfields
Read this Crossrail blog -
 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/davidmillward/apr07/crossrail.htm
Even the FT has been looking at the figures of Crossrail and even Financial Crimes find them wanting ... very wanting ... not just another Olympics but they compare it to Eurotunnel...Indeed, the FT say: a Financial Times report that “the project’s backers are likely to keep cost projections as low as possible to secure approval”.

Crossrail will be so bad for London, it will be killed and the dodgy politicians who put their heads above the parapet for Kiley and Ken will pay" Yes, they wil pay.

Livingstone - "We need this Crossrail to be built"
Mr Livingstone has a great track record for wasting taxpayers money on crap transport programmes - lets look at the tram, the first endeavour for the Millennium Bridge.
See this url for more on Ken Livingstone's transport failures
 http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/mostpopular.var1594612.mostcommented.ken_has_come_to_his_senses.php
Read this url to find out more why Crossrail is a bad idea  http://www.Superlink.co.ukIts either him or his transport advisors.

Read between the lines of the url for the Mayor below and readers will see the corrupt reasons why the Mayor supports Crossrail and then try and find any mention of how he intends to protect taxpayers contribution - There is no protection because there is no intention to protect taxpayers. Do we see a knighthood? Crossrail is a cash cow waiting for its birth and everlasting final party.
 http://www.bexleytimes.co.uk/content/bexley/times/news/story.aspx?brand=BXYOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsbxy&itemid=WeED09%20Aug%202007%2012%3A35%3A00%3A017

Crossrail is not public transport - It is a poor and expensive rail scheme that only benefits the City and yet it is being described as a public transport. The richest part of London wants the poorest parts of London to subsidise a scheme that it is primarily for their benefit. Londoners say no to Crossrail

Can anyone provide proof and facts that Crossrail will be good for London outside of the City and Canary Wharf and not bad for taxpayers?

Thanks from notocrossrail

notocrossrail

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Display the following 7 comments

  1. Superlink — veg
  2. Ken — Hamish Kallin
  3. Backing Superlink instead?? — Norville B
  4. Superlink show how bad Crossrail will be ... — notocrossrail
  5. The 'Crossrail Bill' in its present form, is seriously flawed, wasteful.... — Khoodeelaar! the 'No to Crossrail hole Bill' campaign
  6. No to Crossrail Bill demo outside East London Council 6.30 PM Tues 11 Sept 2007 — Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill
  7. Ken... — Hamish Kallin
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