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Crossrail battle ‘has only just begun’
COMMUNITY leaders in Mayfair say the fight against Crossrail “has only just begun” despite the £16 billion project getting the green light from Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week.
On Wednesday City bosses agreed to plug a shortfall in funding for Crossrail – a high-speed underground rail link from Maidenhead with Essex – voting in favour of “a financial contribution” of £400 million.
Chairman of the Grosvenor Tenants’ and Residents’ Association Kirk Mitchell said 300 homes would now be decanted because of noise and shaking from giant a tunnel-boring machine ploughing through the West End.
“We’re abjectly opposed to it,” he said.
“We will battle Crossrail when it goes to the House of Lords. We will fight it until the government sees sense.”
Marina Atwater, representing 1,000 residents of the Society of Mayfair and St James’s, said: “They are seeking to tunnel underneath sensitive historic buildings without justification or adequate compensation.”
Construction will begin in 2010 with trains up and running by 2015.
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