Mayor of London urged to restart Crossrail 2 – and seek new tax powers to fund it

The Mayor of London should restart planning for Crossrail 2 while also arguing for more powers to raise local taxes to pay for it, concludes a report by the London Assembly’s Budget and Performance Committee.
The Crossrail 1 portal at Royal Oak
The report spends most of its time looking at why building new infrastructure in London (and the UK generally) is so much more expensive than in most other countries, and suggests that the UK could slash costs if it wanted to.
The headline claim is