Examination of Witnesses (Questions 2720
- 2739)
2720. MR MOULD: Would it be helpful if
I explain this?
2721. CHAIRMAN: It would be very helpful
indeed. Mr Carpenter, can you see that?
2722. MR CARPENTER: Yes, thank you.
2723. MR MOULD: What we have here is
a plan showing the alignment of the railway under the current
Bill proposals.[1]
The Committee can see Liverpool Street Station here (indicating)
and then the running tunnels follow the alignment passing into
Tower Hamlets administrative boundary at about this point (indicating)
taking a broadly north-easterly alignment and then a gentle curve
passing into the Spitalfields area. This is the area here around
Wilkes Street and Hanbury Street where the majority of your Lordships'
Petitioners this week live or work. There is the Hanbury Street
shaft side. The alignment then passes on in an easterly direction
and arrives at Whitechapel Station here (indicating). Here is
Whitechapel Road, here is the existing underground station. Your
Lordships recall the entrance from Whitechapel Road into the station
at that point. Here is the proposed Crossrail station building
that we looked at a little last week in the context of Tower Hamlets'
Petition and here is the area of the Crossrail underground station
construction. That is the alignment.
2724. CHAIRMAN: Can you work one of those
pointers, Mr Carpenter?
2725. MR CARPENTER: I can give it a go.
2726. CHAIRMAN: Where do you say that
the route ought to go?
2727. MR CARPENTER: Unfortunately I cannot.
2728. CHAIRMAN: No, can you just point
it to us?
2729. MR CARPENTER: I cannot because
I can hardly see the detail of the map and, too, it is much more
detailed. The documents that arrived today from Crossrail have
got the copy of that map of which I presume this is part of it.
2730. CHAIRMAN: That is the deposited
plan.
2731. MR CARPENTER: It is not simply
the plan, it is the report, it is the reasons. It is not simply
a drawing on the map, it is actually the reasons behind that that
are included in the whole report that we were concerned about.
2732. CHAIRMAN: I am sure it is, but
that which is up on the screen at the moment is the deposited
plan in this area.
2733. MR CARPENTER: That is right.
2734. CHAIRMAN: What I think would be
very helpful for us to know at this stage is where you say the
tracks ought to go instead, I mean roughly.
2735. MR CARPENTER: I think you might
have that. Do you have the 2001 Plan Option B, because Crossrail
have produced a plan of that?
2736. CHAIRMAN: They may have done but
we have not seen it.
2737. MR CARPENTER: They cannot do that,
they do a much more direct route to Whitechapel to there, it is
kind of along that way (indicating)
2738. CHAIRMAN: Effectively, you want
to cut the corner?
2739. MR CARPENTER: Well.
1 Crossrail Ref: P22, Liverpool Street Station to
Whitechapel Station (TOWHLB-XR5B-040) Back
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