please empty your brain below

Is it just me who - when reading this reportage - hears the voice of Alan Bennett in my head..?
Approximately precisely?
1: What happened to "the City Lit"?
2: St Giles' churchyard & parklet - I used to have lunchtime snooze therin fine weather.
"Brave Penderell" who helped Charles II escape after Worcester fight is buried there ...
3: Silicon chip + Grey blancmange, eh? No worse that what was there before, unfortunately.
I was surprised you mentioned Midtown without even a hint of irony!

dg wrote: I'm always pleased to mention them when they're being missed out.
"the first new railway line under the centre of London for yonks"
Fairly sure it's the first this century - the Jubilee Line extension opened in 1999.

The next will probably be the diversion of the southbound Northern Line at Bank.
The divergence of lines may be because somewhere in the Holborn area EDF sank a shaft despite it being on the safeguarded route so Crossrail had to divert to avoid it. They could have made them remove the shaft that that would have been a bit harsh if it could be, literally, got round.

Dean St was chosen as a entrance as, I believe, modern policy, where possible, is not to have the entrance on the main street. All down to emergency evacuation, access for maintenance workers and their equipment etc. There weren't many alternatives.

City Lit is alive and well and relocated in a purpose built location in Keeley Street.
"...boring tunnels beneath densely-packed infrastructure is both ridiculously difficult and ridiculously expensive. Merely walking the route on the surface is a heck of a lot easier, if a heck of a lot slower."

A pedant writes: I would hope that you could walk more quickly than Crossrail's machines can bore, averaging 38m per day according to http://www.crossrail.co.uk/construction/tunnelling/meet-our-giant-tunnelling-machines/










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