Khoodeelaar! extensively records the truthful comment as attributed to Brian Paddick....

By©Muhammad Haque
Organiser
Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill

Posted on the web site of the EALING Times, London at 1605 Hrs UK time Sunday 20 April 2008

Surely ALL options on transport needs of London must be the logical starting point. If, as has already been seen in West London, one particular option was found to be unsuitable then the remanning options should be considered.

On that principle alone, I think Brian Paddick deserves to be recognised for saying a truthful and realistic thing about transport.

For over the past 4 years, the spokespeople on transport in London from all three main parties have uttered unscientific spin and rubbish. They have concealed the truth about the transport needs of ordinary people in London.

This is illustrated by the callous and the strange almost secret-deal -like agreement by all these parties on Crossrail.

Yet all independent studies of transport needs in and of London suggest otherwise... Those suggestions overwhelmingly point to ALL options being deserving of serious and economically responsible consideration.

Because of the size of London costs are by definition high.

No rational decision on transport should be made in a rash, opportunistic way. Years, perhaps decades of liability will be placed on ordinary people who are already being lumbered with having to pay extra council tax for Crossrail.

Khoodeelaar! is currently telling the legislative House of Lords to conduct that overdue serious study during the ‘Crossrail Bill’ Select Committee .



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