Waiting for Crossrail - the guardian

Artist impression of the design for Paddington Crossrail station. Photo: Crossrail/PA

Jonathan Glancey write yesterday:

Boris Johnson, who every year 2018, a service of a 10-coach, air-conditioned train every two and a half minutes promises Mayor of London, and Theresa Villiers, which reveals the designs the eight new stations, the Crossrail is used transport and its 200 million future passengers. Crossrail first 1989 was announced as, passengers will get only 29 years for your first move have waited.

That's a long wait. Is it worth it to have been? promise to be cool and quiet, and the thought is the stations of Whitechapel great attraction is conveyed to Paddington in smooth luxury.In other words, a lot prosaic matter of underground updates when it is completed, are larger increase in London's public transport rail-based capacity produce wird.Wir expect messages on the future of the Thameslink, the North South commuter route network, which improving would make a big difference to throngs of commuters.

Crossrail will be welcome, but its importance should be kept in perspective.It looks gorgeous though.

Housing numbers
The final phase of the debate on the consequences of the Government of the housing has taken the brain twisting form of the contested statistics planned reforms of the capital.Boris, landlord began as Government Ministers, lately the blame for the increase in the local housing allowance prices rather than "scrounge" tenants is soll.Dies a sympathetic line of defence - as a job to me, "nobody likes a landlord" noticed am - but is it all more convincing?

Housing experts Jules Birch has argued convincingly that the figures, the Ministers have used, to support your case are misleading - a militant view shared by landlords."Meanwhile, Philippa ROE, Tory run Westminster has's Cabinet Member for housing, I insisted that the impact of the LHA cuts, was made even in your high-rent Borough, where thousands of tenants are made too high have."I think it is not a crisis or so dramatically as people have been reporting, ", she said."

Perhaps, much of it will depend on how improved define a crisis or what you growing dramatic betrachten.Meine suspicion is that the effects gradually, are vexed lengthy, and Yes, fuel overflowing an unstoppable trend towards the Centre of the city that even more is the preserve of the wealthy, during the remaining housing conditions and poor small remain.

Old Isleworth
Maev Kennedy:

A farming village established West revealed almost 2,000 years along the Roman road from London in the Park around a stately home, now in the deepest Vorstadt.Am Syon House close to the River Thames in Isleworth were extensive remains found including skeletons in ditches and thousands of artifacts including pre-Roman jewelry still mysterious archaeologists - funerals - road and village.

Now read on.

London blogosphere
Guardian travel pointed me to pattern London, much about art, a little bit about tattoos and a bit of hair.

Coming up
Next week London Assembly Committee meetings are planning and housing (Tuesday) and budget and performance (Wednesday) .Von Monday Town Hall hosts a photo exhibition of Latin Americans in London.Ab tomorrow can you Swish.Sind happy? we stay in touch.

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