Inside London's new $25B 'Super Tube'
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Crossrail, or the Elizabeth Line, is set to revolutionize London transport, with high-speed trains running from east to west underneath the UK capital.
(CNN) — Your flight takes off from London's Heathrow Airport in three hours, but you're still in a meeting on the other side of the city, in a Canary Wharf skyscraper. There's no way you'll make it by public transport and traffic makes the taxi option even less appealing. How are you going to make that plane?
Until now, you'd probably have missed it, thanks to London's largely Victorian infrastructure. However, from possibly May this year, traveling across the UK capital will be revolutionized by a new, largely underground high-speed railway connecting east to west.
When fully opened, the new Elizabeth Line -- better known as Crossrail -- will make that Canary Wharf to Heathrow journey just 38 minutes. That's slashing it from at least an hour on the current underground system or about double that in a taxi, even in normal levels of traffic.
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