Complex tech work at Crossrail's stations not even half finished, boss admits

By Jordan Marshall2019-02-21T06:00:00

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Mark Wild says jobs such as M&E on London sites still way behind schedule

More than half of the complex fit-out work on Crossrail’s central London stations such as M&E is still not finished, the boss of Crossrail has admitted.

In a letter updating the chair of the London Assembly’s transport committee on the scheme’s progress, the railway’s chief executive Mark Wild told Caroline Pidgeon less than half of the systems work at the stations still needed to be completed.

The news will heap further pressure on the scheme about when its previous bosses should have admitted the project would miss its December 2018 opening date.

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