Telegraph: Crossrail price rises will be subject to delays

Following the Government's announcement that Crossrail, the long-awaited tunnel from Liverpool Street to Paddington, would finally go ahead, it took just half an hour for the first estate agent to respond. "Crossrail is just what London needs", declared Poncy Twit, a coffee-fetcher for Sir Spamalot residential development. For example Abbey Wood in Southeast London will be just four stops from Liverpool Street. The pleasant name Abbey Wood disguises the fact that half the suburb is a sprawling 1960s estate whose concrete houses are among the cheapest in London and unlikely to appeal to City bonus boys, however fast the trains.