Land Securities buys Moorgate site for £16.5m ahead of Crossrail launch February 16, 2015 Land Securities has bought the leasehold of a 1.9 acre site near Liverpool Street for £16.5m, paving the way for a huge regeneration ahead of the launch of Crossrail. Land Securities took out a three-year option to buy 21 Moorfields in 2012. Its previous owners had collapsed in 2010 and EY had been acting as [...]
Boris Johnson’s mini-Manhattan in Old Oak Common: Why we must speak up for local housing needs February 11, 2015 London’s population is at an all-time high. By 2020, we will have over 9m people living in our city; 10m by 2030. So it is essential that we plan for the growing needs of the capital. London needs a transport system fit for the 21st century. We need a thriving jobs market built on secure, [...]
Crossrail to excavate 3,000 16th century skeletons including plague victims and former Lord Mayor February 9, 2015 A reputed rapist and black magic advocate who was murdered by an angry mob. Victims of the plague. A former Lord Mayor of London. These are just a handful of the people buried under Liverpool Street, whose remains are being unearthed as part of the Crossrail project. More than 5,000 people buried in what was [...]
Boris Johnson’s Crossrail for Bikes gets green light from Transport for London February 4, 2015 Boris Johnson's ambitious Crossrail for Bikes scheme has been given the green light by Transport for London, after it was updated to reduce knock-on traffic delays. Four new cycle superhighways running throughout London have got the go-ahead and work will begin on the project within the next month. The scheme will cost £160m to [...]
How paving over London’s rail routes could end the miserable commuter squeeze February 2, 2015 London’s population is forecast to hit 10m in 2030 and it’s difficult to see how the transport system will cope. A high proportion of commuters already endure severe overcrowding, standing in jam-packed carriages or even struggling to find enough space to get on trains. The government sees additional rail capacity as the best way to [...]
Crossrail hits the East End: Tunnel machine Elizabeth breaks into Liverpool Street under the City January 29, 2015 Tunnel machine Elizabeth, named after the Queen, broke into the eastern end of Liverpool Street Crossrail station yesterday morning. The breakthrough occurred 40m beneath the City of London. The tunnel machine has just 750m more of tunnel to bore, before arriving at its final destination at Farringdon station. Andrew Wolstenholme, Crossrail chief executive said: “We [...]
Boris Johnson moves closer to plans for Old Oak Common Crossrail and HS2 superhub January 27, 2015 Plans to turn a rundown industrial area in west London into a thriving new district with up to 24,000 homes moved a step closer yesterday after the government gave the go-ahead to create an Olympic-style development body for the scheme. Eric Pickles, the communities and local government secretary approved the creation of the Old Oak [...]
Boris Johnson gives revised Crossrail for Bikes the green light – now it’s just up to Transport for London January 27, 2015 A revised version of the heavily anticipated 'Crossrail for Bikes' has been given the green-light by London mayor Boris Johnson, as part of a £913m policy to get more Londoners cycling. The latest version of the plans for Europe's longest “substantially segregated” cycle path, which cut delays by 60 per cent on the route previously [...]
Crossrail beneath the city starting to take shape December 11, 2014 IT LOOKS like a scene out of a dystopian sci-fi movie but it is in fact the tunnel at the partially completed Crossrail Bond Street station. Crossrail is Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, with a total of 26 miles of tunnels being built under London by eight tunnelling machines. It is due to be completed by 2018.
Crossrail: These amazing pictures show what is going on under your feet at Liverpool Street, Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Whitechapel and Paddington December 5, 2014 From above ground Crossrail is little more than an annoying eyesore you have to navigate around. But as with the Wombles, it's so much better underground, and here are the pictures to prove it. Crossrail under Bond Street Crossrail has today revealed these amazing pictures to show how far through the project it [...]