Bill to bring Canary Wharf station up to scratch will be £80m, Crossrail boss reveals

By Jordan Marshall2019-05-16T08:15:00

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The man in charge of Crossrail has said it is having to spend £80m to make sure Canary Wharf station meets London Underground safety standards with work not expected to finish until the autumn.

Speaking to the Public Accounts Committee yesterday, the project’s chief executive Mark Wild said: “We’ve actually spent nearly £80m at Canary Wharf changing the equipment to make it the equivalent safety standards that are required for a London Underground station.

“It was completed in 2015 but we still haven’t finished the work at Canary Wharf and we won’t finish Canary Wharf until September or October this year.”

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