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Author: AdrianAdrian Date: Mar 24, 2008 11:35
On Mar 24, 2:41 am, "Peter Masson" privacy.net> wrote:> "Mizter T" gmail.com> wrote
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>>> My reading of Ken's comments are that (a) he fully understands that
>> Crossrail is a project of great enormity and he will treat it as such,
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> I hope you don't really mean that - it is an enormous project, but surely
> not one of great wickedness.
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> [NB - for those who may not understand my point, may I respectfully suggest
> that they look up 'enormity' in a dictionary.]
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> Peter
A much more common mistake is the misuse of the word "prestigious".
To bring this back on topc: Whatever the cost, Crossrail is essential.
Adrian
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Author: The Real DoctorThe Real Doctor Date: Mar 24, 2008 12:46
On 24 Mar, 18:35, Adrian yahoo.com> wrote:
> To bring this back on topc: Whatever the cost, Crossrail is essential.
Essential to /what/?
Ian
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Author: StimpyStimpy Date: Mar 24, 2008 12:52
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:35:40 +0000, Adrian wrote
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> To bring this back on topc: Whatever the cost, Crossrail is essential.
*Whatever* the cost??
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Author: AdrianAdrian Date: Mar 24, 2008 13:13
On Mar 24, 12:46 pm, The Real Doctor btinternet.com>
wrote:> On 24 Mar, 18:35, Adrian yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> To bring this back on topc: Whatever the cost, Crossrail is essential.
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> Essential to /what/?
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> Ian
It is essential to London's ongoing function as a financial center.
Crossrail will also be useful in helping London's quality of life.
However, I fear that it will take more than one Cross rail to restore
that to anything like acceptable levels.
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Author: AdrianAdrian Date: Mar 24, 2008 13:15
On Mar 24, 12:52 pm, Stimpy yahoo.com> wrote:> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:35:40 +0000, Adrian wrote
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>> To bring this back on topc: Whatever the cost, Crossrail is essential.
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> *Whatever* the cost??
Wouldn't you like to actually derive some benefit from those
extortionately high UK taxes?
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Author: StimpyStimpy Date: Mar 24, 2008 13:35
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:15:07 +0000, Adrian wrote
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>>> To bring this back on topc: Whatever the cost, Crossrail is essential.
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>> *Whatever* the cost??
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> Wouldn't you like to actually derive some benefit from those
> extortionately high UK taxes?
I can think of *many* things to spend my tax money on that would give me more
benefit than Crossrail.
Save £1bn on Crossrail and reopen the stations in Monmouth and Rhyader please
:-)
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Author: AdrianAdrian Date: Mar 24, 2008 13:50
On Mar 24, 1:35 pm, Stimpy yahoo.com> wrote:> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:15:07 +0000, Adrian wrote
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>>>> To bring this back on topc: Whatever the cost, Crossrail is essential.
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>>> *Whatever* the cost??
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>> Wouldn't you like to actually derive some benefit from those
>> extortionately high UK taxes?
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> I can think of *many* things to spend my tax money on that would give me more
> benefit than Crossrail.
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> Save £1bn on Crossrail and reopen the stations in Monmouth and Rhyader please
> :-)
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Author: The Real DoctorThe Real Doctor Date: Mar 24, 2008 15:25
On 24 Mar, 20:13, Adrian yahoo.com> wrote:> On Mar 24, 12:46 pm, The Real Doctor btinternet.com>
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>>> On 24 Mar, 18:35, Adrian yahoo.com> wrote:>
>>> To bring this back on topc: Whatever the cost, Crossrail is essential.
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>> Essential to /what/?
> It is essential to London's ongoing function as a financial center.
> Crossrail will also be useful in helping London's quality of life.
It can't be essential to London's ongoing function, because that's
ongoing without Crossrail. Perhaps you meant "future development" -
but even then, I'd like to see some convincing proof that it's really
going to be worth spending £16bn on.
Ian
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Author: The Real DoctorThe Real Doctor Date: Mar 24, 2008 15:26
On 24 Mar, 20:15, Adrian yahoo.com> wrote:> On Mar 24, 12:52 pm, Stimpy yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:35:40 +0000, Adrian wrote
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>>> To bring this back on topc: Whatever the cost, Crossrail is essential.
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>> *Whatever* the cost??
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> Wouldn't you like to actually derive some benefit from those
> extortionately high UK taxes?
The people Crossrail is supposed to benefit - the international
financial community
- by and large pay bugger all in taxes.
Ian
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Author: Dan GDan G Date: Mar 24, 2008 16:00
On Mar 24, 8:13 pm, Adrian yahoo.com> wrote:> On Mar 24, 12:46 pm, The Real Doctor btinternet.com>
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>>> On 24 Mar, 18:35, Adrian yahoo.com> wrote:>
>>> To bring this back on topc: Whatever the cost, Crossrail is essential.
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>> Essential to /what/?
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>> Ian
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> It is essential to London's ongoing function as a financial center.
> Crossrail will also be useful in helping London's quality of life.
> However, I fear that it will take more than one Cross rail to restore
> that to anything like acceptable levels.
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