Scheme’s boss reveals tunnelling to blame for Bond Street Crossrail delays

Crossrail

Source: Crossrail

Mark Wild told the London Assembly that tunnelling had held up the station by a year

The man responsible for completing Crossrail has revealed that a year-long delay to tunnelling was to blame for the issues that have hit the Bond Street station scheme.

Fronting the London Assembly, Crossrail chief executive Mark Wild said the problems that have arisen on the project, which is being built by a Costain-Skanska joint venture, go all the way back to 2014.

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