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CROYDON COUNCIL BLAME GOVERNMENT AND NOT BORIS FOR TRAMLINK EXTENSION AXE Croydon Council – run by the Conservatives – have laid the blame for the axing of the proposed extensions of Tramlink at the door of the Labour government – rather than fellow Conservative, Mayor of London Boris Johnson. Croydon Council’s leader, Cllr Mike Fisher, said that a lack of government funding for improving the Underground and building Crossrail left Boris with no choice but to abandon expansion plans.
Cllr Fisher said: “It is the failure of the Government Public Private Partnership solution for the London Underground and under-resourcing of the Crossrail project that have now left the mayor high and dry in terms of his ability to adequately resource projects in south London.”
Croydon Council plan to lobby the Government, Mayor of London and Transport for London to ensure the plans are only postponed rather than being outright cancelled.
This week Boris told a People’s Question Time at Bromley that he had made the correct decision. He said: “I could have gone on with this charade but to do that would mean wasting millions and millions of pounds on consultants and planners. I thought it would be better to be up front with people.”
Source: This is Croydon Today
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