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Forget a Channel bridge and celebrate Crossrail

27 January 2018

9:00 AM

27 January 2018

9:00 AM

This column has long been a sucker for a grand projet. ‘Time for a trip to Boris Island,’ I gushed in 2010 when London’s then mayor came up with his much-mocked (though in engineering terms not unfeasible) wheeze to shift Heathrow to a giant man-made landing strip in the Thames estuary.

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