Boss reveals extent of tech work still to complete at Crossrail stations

By Jordan Marshall2019-03-20T06:00:00

Mark Wild says host of fit-out jobs including critical communications network not yet finished

More than 1,000 CTV cameras and 6,000 loudspeakers need to be installed, tested and integrated across Crossrail’s central London stations, the man charged with completing the £17.6bn project has revealed.

In a letter to the London Assembly Crossrail chief executive Mark Wild has laid bare the extent of work required to make the stations operational just from a communications perspective.

In the letter, which was sent as a monthly update to the chair of the Assembly’s transport committee Caroline Pidgeon, Wild said: “The other major challenge [beside fit-out, testing and commissioning] at stations is completing the extensive communications systems installation that we need to deliver an operational station.

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