Crossrail: Heads would have rolled, if they hadn’t gone already

By Dave Rogers2019-04-26T10:20:00

Who will finally admit it was their fault the job is so late?

It can appear Crossrail doesn’t like stating the obvious too much.

Announcing in a statement last night the new window of when the railway might open, readers were told Crossrail had “identified a six-month delivery window with a midpoint at the end of 2020”.

In plain English, that means between October 2020 and March 2021. Why not just say that?

This sort of double-speak has dogged Crossrail ever since it announced on the final day of summer last year that the scheme which, until then, Crossrail kept telling everyone, was on track to open in December 2018 would be delayed.

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