Chancellor George Osborne's Budget mention and London Mayor Boris Johnson's newly-launched 'growth commission' were both timely reminders of Crossrail 2 's economic importance for London - and beyond. Nearly 130,000 Surrey residents travel to London by train every day which means cross-border infrastructure schemes such as this are vital to ensuring not only London's economy strengthens but Surrey's does - because at £35bn it packs one of the country's biggest financial punches. That is why we have commissioned a study to examine whether there are benefits to stretching the planned rail link further into Surrey.
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