Just posting a link to this article from this morning's CityFM:
http://www.cityam.com/267275/crossrail- ... iness-case
It says that in the business case which TfL sent to the government in March, and seen by City A.M., the proposed station at Balham has been dropped with the business case going for the Tooting Broadway option.
Judging from previous threads, I believe the choice of Tooting Broadway over Balham will meet with the approval of the majority of posters here, both those from Tooting and those from Balham.
However, perhaps the bigger issue is whether Crossrail 2 will proceed at all now. The £1 billion of English taxpayers' money which the Conservative Party has agreed to bribe the Democratic Unionist Party to vote for Theresa May has to come from somewhere after all ...