Jubilation
GOOD NEWS for all those (or both those) who want to go by Tube from Canada Water to Canning Town: there is light at the end of the tunnel. London Under- ground has called in Bechtel, the contrac- tors, in a last attempt to make the Jubilee Line extension open in time for the millen- nium: well, this millennium, anyhow. Billed as the biggest civil engineering project in Europe, it could certainly claim tQ be the worst. Years behind schedule and miles over budget, it has pre-empted the invest- ment that the failing system needed, for the sake of building a longer way round from Stratford-atte-Bow to Bond Street. Sensible traffic links go where the traffic goes or wants to go, and their economics work by concentration, not dispersal. This line will take in the Dome, if that is ready and if there is anything to put inside it. There, too, I get the impression that another mil- lennium would be handy.
Previous page
