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CrossRail Blames Bugs for Potential Delay

Crossrail has blamed software bugs for a potential two-year delay in its mission to zip commuters across London. Chief Executive, Mark Wild, claimed due to the complex work of “knitting together” systems, engineers “don’t know what software bugs” they’ll find. Which delays the entire decade-long project, led by Bombardier and Siemens, even further. According to […]

Crossrail funding hits £17.6Bn confirmed by the government

An extra £1.7 billion in funding has been confirmed by the government for the delayed Crossrail project, as it also announced the appointment of a new chairman and deputy chairman. After the Department for Transport and Transport for London contributed an extra £300 million in July this year, transport minister Andrew Jones admitted a further […]

Crossrail Received £350m Loan from the Government

Rail Minister Jo Johnson announced that £350 million of short-term repayable financing is to be provided by the Department for Transport (DfT) to the Mayor of London for the 2018/2019 year, in order to cover additional work required for the Crossrail project. Discussions still continue between Transport for London and the government about longer-term additional […]

Crossrail Project Connecting the East and West of London

Crossrail Project Connecting to the East and to the West of London

One of Europe’s largest infrastructure projects, Crossrail, is a project that connect the east to the west of London. Crossrail will consist of a 120kn railway line that will travel across London. As part of the project sustainability was integrated into the work from the very beginning of the operation. The work will include a […]

London’s Crossrail: Could it be the key to happier commuters?

London’s Crossrail: Could it be the key to happier commuters?

London Crossrail, Europe’s largest infrastructure project, is now over 70% complete, and when it opens in May 2017 looks set to bring a number of benefits to commuting in London. Not only will it improve journey times from one side of London to the other by providing direct links from east to west, it is […]