Heads would have rolled...

摘要

It can appear Crossrail doesn't like stating the obvious too much. Its statement last week that it had "identified a six-month delivery window with a midpoint at the end of 2020" means, in plain English, that it is now due to open between October 2020 and March 2021. Why not just say that? This sort of double-speak has dogged Crossrail ever since it announced on the final day of last summer that the scheme, which until then Crossrail kept telling everyone was on track to open in December 2018, would be delayed. Since then, it's been handed almost £3bn more in a bailout and seen the revised opening date of autumn this year slip a further 18 months to spring 2021 - and even then a key station, Bond Street, still won't be ready.