KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU so! Crossrail is a CRASSrail. It is in a mess. And the admission comes from a CRASSrail backing outfit, 'leons consulting'.

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08 October 2010.

Editor © Muhammad Haque.

 

KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU so! Crossrail is a CRASSrail. It is in a mess. And the admission comes from a CRASSrail backing outfit, 'leons consulting'.

 

 

 

 

Quoting Leons Consulting:

 

Lack of Crossrail Station confirmation a cause for concern to Senior Crossrail Executive

 

October 7th, 2010

Author: admin

 

The Chief Executive for Crossrail, Rob Holden was featured in a story in the NCE this week as expressing some concern about the lack of a finished specification for the Crossrail scheme. He passed comment that this lack is proving to be an enormous frustration to him and the other Crossrail Senior Executives. One example cited of an area where the project scope had yet to be settled to Crossrail satisfaction was the planned station at Woolwich. The station has still not received the official seal of approval and Mr Holden describes this as “not a recipe for success”.

 

Mr Holden made a speech at the NCE Rail Summit last week and he was quoted as saying that Crossrail was still waiting for Transport for London and the Department of Transport to confirm the funding arrangements for the station at Woolwich. The Department of Transport and Transport for London are both sponsors of the Crossrail Project. However, the Comprehensive Spending Review is planned for the 20th October and Mr Holden is hoping that official conformation of the Woolwich station will follow on from this.

 

Although a budget of £15.9 billion has been allocated for the Crossrail project, Crossrail senior executives were hoping that more detailed funding decisions would have taken place during the Parliamentary process prior to when the Monarch signed the Crossrail Act back in July 2008.

 

It has now been two years since the Crossrail project received Royal Assent, but there have still been no firm decisions as to how many stations there are going to be, plus where exactly these stations will be located. Mr Holden is worried that the politicians involved in the Crossrail project are not taking the issues of specific funding seriously enough and because of this the Crossrail scheme may suffer on the long run.

 

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