27 | Crossrail might not open until 2020 and costs are up by £2 billion | ----------- | |
IanVisits | 2018-12-11 03:10 | ????0? | |
In the statement from the Mayor’s office, it support’s Sir Terry Morgan’s public statements that he warned the Mayor in July that there would be a delay to the opening, but the Mayor says that the worst-case scenario that was presented to them, if all risks are realised, is an opening date of August 2019, but the Mayor was verbally briefed by Crossrail that it would be well before that.Although two options were presented that could see the line open in December 2018, they were both judged as “not feasible”. It also states that they are likely to need their ROGS exemption extended until April 2019, so it was clear then that the delay would be at least 6 months, if not more.Whether anyone explicitly said that the deadline of 9th December would be missed is something that is likely to become clearer with the reviews that are being carried out, or said it in a way that wasn’t explicit, but so obvious that anyone reading the reports could be in no doubt that a serious delay was on the way. -- ???????? | |||
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