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 Mr John Wilkinson Mr John Wilkinson Conservative, Ruislip - Northwood 12:00, 11 May 1999

Does not the prospect of road-user and workplace car-parking charges make it more important than ever that effective public transport links—from the west into London, and to the east—such as crossrail, be instituted? Is not the real problem that the Administration have been unable to build public-private partnerships in selling London Underground leases, so that its capital budget is so constrained that money is just not available?