After all these years...

[sbisson]

...they actually seem to have started work on Crossrail...



...at least according to this hoarding in Soho Square.

I suspect its the start of surveying the ground for the Tottenham Court Road station extension

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[drplokta]

Yes, and there's another one just round the corner in Carlisle Street (outside Private Eye's office). They both seem to have drills, so I suspect they're taking some core samples to see just what's underneath Soho before they have to start tunnelling.

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

Lots of Betamax porn tapes and old copies of Private Eye.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

And patisserie.

(I speak as one wqho used to visit his godfather's premises on Brewer Street. If you look in the right place, you can still find a stone door lintel with the name 'Floris' on.)

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, the Second Avenue Subway is still under consideration in New York City -- as it has been intermittently since at least the 1930s.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

They've got signs up for a crossrail construction site on the middle island of the big roundabout under the Westway, where Marylebone Road becomes Harrow Road:

Map here

Since it will eventually be coming out more or less opposite my house I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.