Crossrail Flashcards
London Underground
rapid transport system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties. It was the first underground railway in the world opening in 1863. The network serves 272 stations
Oyster card
A smart pair you could travel method to people use on buses, trains and ships quickly and efficiently. You can also use a bank card.
Bike sharing scheme
Provide self higher bikes and ear bikes and many public places in London for as little as £1.65 for up to 30 minutes this has encouraged people to cycle rather than drive and reduced traffic congestion
congestion charging zone
Requires a £15 daily fee for any vehicle travelling in central London between 7 am and 6 pm Monday to Friday at 12-6pm on weekends. This encourages more people to use public transport
advantages of the London crossrail
A new train line will increase London rail classed by 10% an extra 1.5 million people will be within 45 minutes of central London.
Significant reducing journey time such as the trip from Liverpool Street to Heathrow which will decrease from over an hour to just 35 minutes.
The 3.5 million tons of earth that will take up during the construction of stations were transported to Wallesea island at the mouth of the river. Thames nature reserve has now been developed now attracts a huge jump of bird from the project accident defence against flood.
It is hope that traffic congestion will be ease benefiting the local environment and businesses in the capital
It will act as a catalyst for regeneration and only is production that the line will support the delivery of 90,000 new homes around the station is also reported that will add an estimated £42 billion to the UK economy.
Disadvantages of crossrail
knuckle councils in Northern city such as Leeds Manchester and Liverpool feel that the growth of their economies are hinted by a lack investment in transportation infrastructure crossroad therefore why didn’t the north south divide?
And have sword (25%) such as Whitechapel in East London as a result local people had to put up with the building of the project have been priced out of the housing and rental market.
The total construction cost of 18 .9 billion (4,000,000,000 budget) and was 3 1/2 years late. The project of this infrastructure spending in the south east of the UK to the detriment of the rest of the UK.