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Article: Letter: The New Street myths now arriving . . .(Letters)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2008
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Byline: Coun Martin Mullane
Dear Editor, I hope you give me the opportunity to answer a number of myths about the New Street station Gateway project and the alternative Grand Central station which keep reappearing in the Birmingham Post.
1) Myth 1 - Grand Central would sort out all of Birmingham's rail capacity problems at only pounds 1billion.
The latest projected cost of Grand Central is between pounds 2billion and pounds 3billion.
The original cost of pounds 1billion was only a rough estimate and further examination of the proposal is ...