NETWORK RAIL has been caught acting as CHEAT WORK rail! As CHEAT WORK Rail is close to 'Crossrail' pluggers, we say: SCRAP CRASSRAIL!

By©Muhammad Haque
0530 GMT
London Sunday 13 July 2008
NETWORK RAIL is involved with ‘Crossrail'. How has it been behaving? Has it been found to have been as callous and unreliable? INDEED.
As the evidence represented in one scandal that has been found in Islington:
NETWORK is CHEATWORK rail. As NETWORK RAIL AND Islington council ‘planning’ staff have been caught [see the full text of the report from an Islington based publication, we reproduced below] CHEATING the community in Islington, we ask again: how much more evidence of corruption should be found before the failing, wasteful outfits are either disposed of or their ‘contracts’ seriously reviewed and then rescinded and done away with? How much more evidence of Council ‘planners’ behaving against transparency and community rights and good finance before they are given the overdue SACK that they deserve? How much more losses must be allowed to be caused to the local environment, the local economy before CHEATWORK RAIL are given the marching orders and stopped from looting the public while the needs of the community are neglected?
[To be continued]

Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 11 July 2008

Footbridge study was ‘duplicitous’

A CONTROVERSIAL £60,000 feasibility study into a footbridge that could unite communities on either side of King’s Cross station was already “weighted against the scheme” before it was launched, according to claims this week.
Network Rail ruled out the £5million footbridge last month – promised originally in plans for the railway land redevelopment – on the grounds of costs and security complications.
But campaigners argued this week that the original brief for the study was “unneces sarily complicated”.
Islington Labour councillor Paul Convery, chairman of the west area planning committee, accused Network Rail and Camden planners, who provided the brief for the feasibility study, of being “duplicitous”.
He added: “The planners didn’t look at a simple bridge which would have stretched across the station from one side to another and which is what the residents wanted.
“Instead they looked at a complicated version with access to several platforms. Obviously that would have created a security nightmare and be costly. So the whole scheme was dropped.”

* The scheme will be discussed at a meeting by the King’s Cross Rail Group on Thursday at the Blessed Sacrament Church in Copenhagen Street, Barnsbury, at 7pm.


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