Saturday, October 17, 2009

KHOODEELAAR! Action replay of Tower Hamlets Lib Dems' own unplugged role re Crossrail on 2 March 2006: Typical indeed! [5]

0140 GMT
London
Sunday 18 October 2009

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How Tower Hamlets Liberal democrats announced their 'opposition to the Crossrail hole" in a news release issued on 2 March 2006

QUOTE Tower Hamlets Liberal Democrats


Crossrail 9.00.00am GMT Thu 2nd Mar 2006 _At last night's Full Council meeting the Liberal Democrat Councillors called for the Council to reject Crossrail's plans for tunnelling and intervention shafts in the borough. _Lib Dem Councillor Louise Alexander submitted a motion to the Full Council meeting calling for the Council to categorically reject any Crossrail intervention shaft in the Brick Lane area, plans for an additional tunnel surfacing in Allen Gardens and the associated problems of removal of spoil from these site. _Cllr Alexander said, "Lib Dems support the Crossrail project and the benefits it will bring to Londoners but we have always campaigned against the tunnelling strategy and the positioning of the various shafts. The Council has submitted a petition to Parliament which is a move in the right direction, but does not go far enough. Were the Select Committee to accept Tower Hamlets' petition in full, we would have an intervention shaft in the particularly narrow Woodseer Street. Residents would still experience huge disruption with digging and lorries trundling through the highly residential Brick Lane area past 3 schools. None of these streets could cope with lorries to this extent. The route goes through Greatorex Street, Hanbury Street, Spital Street, Buxton Street and Vallance Road, but Labour Councillors deliberately shut their ears to this and refuted my facts." _"With this motion I hoped that all the Councillors would work together to show our opposition to the digging of any kind of hole in Brick Lane. This motion recognised how strongly the community feels about this and would have pledged us, as their elected representatives, to follow this through on their behalf." _UNQUOITE Tower Hamlets Liberal democrats 2 March 2006

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