Crossrail will not open until March 2021

摘要

Crossrail will not be completed until March 2021 - more than two years after it was first supposed to open. Chief executive Mark Wild said the company had earmarked a six-month delivery window for the £17.8bn scheme "with a midpoint at the end of 2020", meaning it will open some time between October that year and the following March. But even then the route will open without its planned stop at Bond Street in London's West End, which Crossrail said "is delayed because of design and delivery challenges". Bond Street station is being built by a joint venture of Costain and Skanska with which Crossrail said it is "working closely [...] to ensure the station is ready to open at the earliest opportunity". Crossrail said the new plan had been based on identifying and re-sequencing more than 100,000 interdependent tasks.