Billed as Europe's largest infrastructure project, Crossrail survived the U.K.'s toughest austerity drive in generations, in part because officials pushed back its schedule by a year. That move cut the estimated cost by around $1.6 billion, to $23 billion. The election of a new, budget-...
The cost of London’s new east-west Crossrail rail line has ballooned to nearly £19bn, with the heavily delayed project now not expected to open fully until mid-2022 as the pandemic compounded the engineering problems facing the scheme. Crossrail said on Friday the price tag was expected t...
TfL’s other proposal was for an extension of 4tph from Old Oak Common to West Drayton (‘Project West‘) in the peak hours. We calculated this would require four extra trains and TfL have already stated that they can’t implement both Project East and Project West with the ten extra tr...
You can get on the bus for a fixed fare, the Tube is a fixed fare, they might be a bit grubby or busy – but you know you’re going to get there and you have multiple options.” Andy said he always felt the HS2 project had too much focus on reducing journey times to London ...
I can see the “branch to East London” argument gaining even more political momentum which is not going to do anything for the project’s cost or timescale given no detailed work or consultation is happening on that idea (well not that’s been made public anyway). I note the comments ...
The decade-long construction project has also been one of London's biggest archaeological digs, uncovering everything from 68,000-year-old mammoth bones to the remains of a Tudor manor house and the skeletons of 14th-century Black Death victims. The delay means more months of cramped...
The £14.5 billion headline construction cost of the project is largely publicly funded. A Department of Transport grant of £4.1 billion, and £7.1 billion from the Mayor, comprise the bulk of the start-up costs. … A quarter of its £4.1 billion of capital expenditure is also ...
The project encompassed the construction of both traditional and Rail for London (RFL) stations, which serve as key interchange points between Crossrail and other rail services like the London Underground and National Rail. These RFL stations facilitate seamless connections for passengers traveling across...
At the 2018 policy forum on Crossrail, the project's director of operations, Howard Smith, described the service's function thusly: [Crossrail will] connect up the big trains that run into mainline termini and bring them through the centre avoiding the need to do something that, you know, ...
Crossrail is a railroad and infrastructure construction project in Greater London, which is to be completed by 2018. The cost for the entire project with its route network, which is about 62 miles long, is estimated at approximately 18 billion euros. WIEHAG was responsible not only for the co...