Examination of Witnesses (Questions 160-161)
MR PAUL
PLUMMER, MS
JANET GOODLAND,
MR ROB
HOLDEN, MR
THEO STEEL
AND MR
PAUL SMITH
19 OCTOBER 2005
Q160 Chairman: Are you quite happy that
you have the right type of funding in place for this central section
of Thameslink?
Ms Goodland: No, we do not have
the funding in place yet. That is what we are working with the
Department and the Office of the Rail Regulator to establish.
Once that is in place, it should be relatively straightforward.
Q161 Chairman: What sort of timescale
have you for all these various bits of work that are going on:
the correlation of the tickets, the agreement for the funding,
the decision on the travelator? We are in 2005 now. We are not
talking about a great deal of time. What sort of timescale would
you expect, for example, on funding?
Ms Goodland: For all the infrastructure
projects we have been talking about we would expect to have funding
agreements and agreed ways forward, agreed scopes of work, by
early next year so that we can go through the detailed design
process and be on site in 2006/7 to have a substantial amount
of work finished by 2010. There are some exceptions to that like
King's Cross Station which is obviously a series of projects and
we are the last one on the block. That is from the point of view
of the physical projects. I am not sure about the soft projects
because we are not doing the ticketing, obviously.
Mr Steel: I do not want to commit
the DFT to a timescale this afternoon but it is well ahead of
2012.
Chairman: Thank you very much. You have
all been very helpful. We are very grateful to you.
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