Friday, March 15, 2013

Transport for London commissioner warns of 'calamitous' impacts if government funding stalls

guardian.co.uk: "Conjuring a vision of waste and inefficiency borne of the financial uncertainty that characterised the defunct, pre-TfL London transport authority he'd joined 37 years ago, Hendy underlined the implications of London's rapid population growth. "We're building up to a population of nine million by 2020. All of the networks that we manage and that local authorities manage will be under increasing strain," he said. "I predict that when Crossrail opens in 2018 it will be immediately full. The people who predicted that it will take all the traffic out of Oxford Street or that we'll be able to sit down on the Central Line in the rush hour will be wrong. It will just be full up with people.""

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