Description | Report. Contents include past trends and present problems, future prospects, making the most of the current network, new lines and extensions, evaluation of schemes, and conclusions. Figures include past trends and forecast growth in rail commuting, extend of overcrowding in 1987, extent of overcrowding in 2001 - after a major upgrading programme, 2001 overcrowding effect of a Jubilee Line extension to Ilford, Chelsea to Hackney scheme, Thameslink metro scheme, full CrossRail scheme, and combining East-West CrossRail Scheme with the Chelsea-Hackney schemes. Table include costs of new rail schemes, estimated benefits of new rail schemes, and estimated benefit-cost rations of new rail schemes. Maps include overlapping Victoria Line scheme, Jubilee Line extension schemes, New Cross-London tube scheme - the Chelsea Hackney Line, Docklands Second Line and Bakerloo Line southern extension schemes, West London schemes, CrossRail schemes and enhanced Thameslink scheme. |