Khan admits who pays for Crossrail’s missing £650m in funding still not sorted

By Jordan Marshall2020-01-08T06:00:00

Two months after scheme asked for another bailout, London mayor says talks with Treasury are ‘ongoing’

London mayor Sadiq Khan has revealed there is still no plan for where the funding needed to complete Crossrail is going to come from.

The railway’s chief executive Mark Wild confirmed the scheme would need an extra £400m to £650m last November, despite having already been given a £2.8bn bailout in 2018.

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