Consultant warns Crossrail may need to ask for more money as railway eyes May opening

By Jordan Marshall2021-10-28T05:00:00

Jacobs says completing work within additional £825m budget ‘extremely challenging’

Jacobs has again warned that Crossrail might be forced to ask for more money on top of the £825m bailout it received last year in order to complete the scheme.

Costs on the job have ballooned from £3bn to their current £18.6bn with the railway, originally due to open nearly three years ago, set to be finally up and running in the first half of next year.

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