Crossrail Project

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Transport and the Regions – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 May 1999.

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Photo of Mike Gapes Mike Gapes Labour/Co-operative, Ilford South 12:00, 11 May 1999

I am grateful for that reply. Does my right hon. Friend agree that a fast rail link from east to west London, including Stratford to Paddington, would not only take a great deal of pressure off the underground system—the District, Circle, Metropolitan and Central lines—but greatly benefit those who live in one side of London, but work in the other, and the many millions of visitors to our capital city?