Crossrail £2.8bn OVER budget and two years late
A NEW taxpayer-funded railway line is running £2.8billion over budget and at least two years late, it was revealed yesterday. Crossrail, which will run from Reading to East London, is expected to cost £17.6billion – nearly 20 per cent over budget – following “management mistakes”, said the National Audit Office. This is the result of an “unrealistic” timetable which led to “damaging consequences”. Trains were supposed to run on the line from December last year. But services are only expected to

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