KHOODEELAAR! TOLD EALING TIMES in August 2007 how openly uncaring Ken Livingstone-fronted Crossrail peddlers were about the needs of people

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Muhammad Haque, London says... 
3:32pm Wed 22 Aug 07

By©Muhammad Haque

Organiser

Khoodeelaar, the Brick Lane, Whitechapel and Stepney London E1 Area campaign against Crossrail hole Bill [the ‘Crossrail Bill’ now3 in the UK House of Commons

1425 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 22 August 2007

The Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign has argued, for 43 months now, that those who promote the scheme, do so without reason or logic or rationality. That is why; I have dubbed the entire scheme as CRASSrail. This is again borne out and vindicated by the uncaring and offensive excuse given by Adrian Ruck, a spokesman for First Great Western whom you have quoted as saying as follows:

"Improving disabled access will cost a huge amount of money, about £1.5m, but the station will be knocked down and completely rebuilt when CrossRail happens."

There is another similarly anti-social factor evident throughout the language of the pluggers of the CRASSrail scheme. It is that ‘when Crossrail is built, so and so problem will be solved’.

They are citing CrossRail as a panacea for all ills in society! Which proves the point that it is NOT about addressing the genuine transport needs of people in the region within the capacity and the potential of the UK economy.

In the case of inner city East End of London, the Crossrail hole plot-backers have been forced to change the phrases, the words they use. Depending on which ones we expose at a given time as being typical of the sham ‘thinking’ that has gone into the p[resent CrossRail plan, they change the word and replace it with one they think will not show up the crassness of Crossrail.

Is this a responsible, accountable way for a band of decision-makers to behave when they have been given the use – or the waste – of hundreds of millions of £ in the name of solving a particular aspect of the transport needs of London?

I could cite hundreds of stunts and sham words used by Crossrail hole-backer Ken Livingstone…

To summarize Livingstone’s tendency and mention, it is quite possible that he will claim that Crossrail is needed to get UK competitors to win in some of the planned events at the 2012 Olympic Games!