Will we get "Crossrail 2" from the north to the south of the capital ?
Eventually, the shaft will be sunk 20 meters deep to support the Crossrail tunneling works.
The mining engineers on the multi-billion pound Crossrail project are certainly a passionate lot.
It asked Mayor Boris Johnson to provide more toilets at train, bus and Crossrail stations.
Crossrail, a scheme designed to improve London's rail system, traces its ancestry to 1974.
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Work has started on replacing four bridges in preparation for the new electric Crossrail trains.
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Mr Livingstone was announcing some early decisions for the construction and operation of Crossrail.
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It said Crossrail's 10-coach trains would be much longer than current trains and carry 1, 500 people.
The City had agreed to make a "significant contribution to the future of Crossrail", he said.
The first Crossrail project was suggested in the 1990s however it was not given the go-ahead until 2007.
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Delivery of key components of the Aberdeen Crossrail scheme, including improvements to the services between Aberdeen and Inverness.
These techniques will be used for Crossrail and the Thames Sewer.
Other recommendations include the London Underground running later on Friday and Saturday nights, and the implementation of a 24-hour Crossrail.
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Gatwick is constrained to a single runway for another decade, but with a link into Crossrail, Stansted could rival Heathrow.
In this case there are at least three bills being carried over - including the corporate manslaughter and Crossrail bills.
However, there is no risk to people's health now because the plague bacteria cannot survive long in the soil, Crossrail says.
The first project to be supported under the scheme, the Crossrail line linking east and west London, was announced in September.
Forecasts have been made that Crossrail could carry 200, 000 people during the morning peak period and create up to 100, 000 jobs.
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He said there would be little change to the station building other than extending platforms to accommodate the longer Crossrail trains.
The same is true of Crossrail, an ambitious plan to connect (among other things) Heathrow airport to the city's financial districts.
Mr Livingstone has described Crossrail as "even more important to London's long-term prosperity than our victory in winning the Olympic Games".
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Starting in 2018, Crossrail will link Maidenhead, Berkshire, in the west to Shenfield, Essex, and Abbey Wood, south-east London, in the east.
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The mayor said Oyster travelcards would be accepted on Crossrail services and a premium fare would be charged on the Heathrow extension.
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Mayor Boris Johnson said Crossrail 2 was being "seriously considered" by the Treasury and that it was the timing of it at issue.
Last year a leaked Treasury report claimed that without Crossrail, London's transport network would struggle if the Olympics was brought to the city.
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But he said despite being a "passionate optimist" he thought Crossrail 2 would most likely be a separate project starting "as early as 2019".
The latter has been winning of late, hence Crossrail, the high-speed connection to the continent, and the upgrades of London's bus and Tube networks.
The first "Quietways" could open next year, with the improved Superhighways and the central section of "bike Crossrail" expected to be completed by 2016.
The shaft sunk as part of Crossrail's construction is located on the edge of Charterhouse Square in Farringdon, formerly the site of a monastery.
Tunnelling is well under way on Crossrail, but for most Londoners the only thing they will have noticed are blue hoardings along its route.
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