MP Susan Kramer: 'Kingston's Crossrail contributors should be recompensed'
7:20am Wednesday 5th August 2009
Nearly 700 businesses in Kingston who are likely to be asked to pay for Crossrail should be repaid with more investment in transport locally, an MP has said.
Firms from across London will be asked to pay from their business rates from next April, to pay for the high-speed east to west route which will link Heathrow with the City and Canary Wharf.
Kingston companies above a rateable value of £50,000 would be asked to contribute £2.57m in total - 1.4 per cent of the total cost.
Susan Kramer, MP for Richmond Park and north Kingston said: “In return, we must get real investment to solve some of the transport problems we have locally.
“While extensive works are going on at weekends to improve the Tube network, we are seeing very little gain locally.
“The quid pro quo for the support from our area must be more investment to reduce overcrowding, increase train capacity and mitigate the effects of Airtrack on level crossings.”
Last week the Liberal Democrats who control Kingston Council said they were “angered” by the funding proposals, despite a report saying Kingston could reap up to £18.3m from benefits as “better paid” Londoners spend their money in the borough.
In 2004, an official report said the potential cost of the Kingston extension was close to £1bn, effectively ruling out the link.
To comment on the proposals visit london.gov.uk/crossrail-brs/survey/index.htm.
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Tony from Surbiton, Surbiton says...
11:34am Wed 5 Aug 09
'Last week the Liberal Democrats who control Kingston Council said they were “angered” by the funding proposals, despite a report saying Kingston could reap up to £18.3m from benefits as “better paid” Londoners spend their money in the borough.'
WELL I AM "ANGERED" BY THE LIB DEM FUNDING PROPOSALS - GIVE ME MY COUNCIL TAX BACK!!!
khoodeelaar!NotoCrossrail, london says...
1:35am Thu 6 Aug 09
Muhammad Haque
1247 Hrs UK
Wednesday
05 August 2009
Dear Louise ,
This is further to our telephone conversation in the past
20 minutes.
Lib Dem MP Susan Kramer is full of contradictions.
As a publicly claiming economics-conscious career-
carrying person with almost acceptable ‘international’
links, she is being irresponsible with her latest stunt for
Crossrail. ..she has not shown why her so-called quid
pro quo demand is realistic, let alone fundable. I put a
series of costs and priority related questions to her
office in the past hour. There was no evidence from her
office justifying Ms Kramer’s stunt. Nor is there any
sign that she has done any study of the transport needs
of london as a whole. It s additionally irresponsible that
she should repeatedly confuse her constituents by
talking and 'moving' in every direction about transport.
Crossrail is wasteful, diversionary scam. There is no
need for it. What the people of London need is an
improved standard of hardware and manners by
transport personnel...and accountable, honest set of MPs
and local and regional political decision makers. Not
another debts-causing scam...Susan Kramer should
support the call for the scrapping of Crossrail. Not add
to the list of subsidiary wasteful indulgences to fund the
main scam..
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