Former Crossrail bosses set to face the heat on £17.6bn project's delay

By Jordan Marshall2019-03-08T06:00:00

Ex-chief executives Andrew Wolstenholme and Simon Wright set to front the London Assembly’s transport committee

Crossrail’s previous two chief executives are set to face questions from the London Assembly about what has gone wrong on the £17.6bn project.

Andrew Wolstenholme, who is now the managing director of defence contractor BAE Systems, and Simon Wright, who is still a consultant to Crossrail, have been "invited to ... discuss this issue [the delay]" by the Assembly's transport committee when it meets next Thursday (14 March).

Wolstenholme took up the top job at Crossrail in September 2011, joining from Balfour Beatty where he was the director of innovation and strategic capability at Balfour Beatty.

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