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The latest report of the Crossrail Fiasco All-Party Committee denounces the "Project Management and Supervision of Railways" by the Department of Transportation (DfT).
The CAP criticizes "a dominant culture of excessive optimism" regarding the completion of the east-west railway crossing central London. MEPs demand that DfT "urgently define the consequences of senior officials in case of program failure".
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The Elizabeth Line, as it will be called at the beginning of the services, was to open in December 2018. It is delivered by Crossrail Ltd, a subsidiary of Transport for London. The initial budget was £ 15 billion.
It will connect Reading and Heathrow airports, west of the capital, to Shenfield, Esbad, and to Abbey Wood in south-east London.
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1953: On June 3, London buses descend on an Oxford street decorated to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection
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1968: Queen Elizabeth II opens the first fully automated large-scale railway line, the Victoria Line.
© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection
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1974: A broom cutter shield extending the London Underground's Piccadilly line to Heathrow Airport is unveiled in the open air.
© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection
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1976: Britain opens the world in a new era of air transport with Concorde's first commercial flight, placing the UK at the forefront of aeronautical engineering.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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1979: HRH Prince Charles inaugurates the latest London Underground service, the Jubilee Line, as London's transport infrastructure grows to meet growing demand.
© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection
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1987: Opening of London City Airport to meet the growing demand for business travel to and from the Docklands. The airport has welcomed 133,000 pbadengers in 1988 and three million in 2011. By 2030, an estimated eight million pbadengers.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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1990: The Entente Cordiale is very present while French and British engineers meet for the first time under the English Channel. The tunnel was the culmination of an idea first proposed by the French engineer Albert Mathieu in 1802. The completion of the tunnel represented a major technical achievement of the modern world.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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1991: The longest span suspension bridge in the UK opens on the Thames. The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge now carries 150,000 vehicles southbound per day.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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1994: The Queen and French President François Mitterrand open the Channel Tunnel, the first surface connection to continental Europe since the Ice Age. The tunnel is listed as one of the seven modern wonders of the world according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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2000: The first tramway for 50 years pbades through the center of Croydon with the launch of Tramlink, with £ 200 million.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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2003: A Eurostar train leaves the Channel Tunnel on the maiden voyage between Brussels and London via the new section of the Channel Tunnel rail link. State-of-the-art technology on the new HS1 route connects London to Paris in 2.15 hours by train.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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2008: Heathrow Airport opens terminal 5. More than 60,000 people participated in the construction of the British Airways terminal.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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2010: launch of the Barclays Cycle Hire program. More than 10 million trips have already been made.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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2012: Crossrail begins to dig tunnels. Phyllis began moving into London in May to build the Crossrail tunnels, the new railway line under the capital. Each machine weighs 1000 tons and is more than 150 meters long, equivalent to 14 London buses. Some 200 million pbadengers would travel each year on Crossrail when it opens in 2018.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of Crossrail
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1953: On June 3, London buses descend on an Oxford street decorated to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection
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1968: Queen Elizabeth II opens the first fully automated large-scale railway line, the Victoria Line.
© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection
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1974: A broom cutter shield extending the London Underground's Piccadilly line to Heathrow Airport is unveiled in the open air.
© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection
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1976: Britain opens the world in a new era of air transport with Concorde's first commercial flight, placing the UK at the forefront of aeronautical engineering.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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1979: HRH Prince Charles inaugurates the latest London Underground service, the Jubilee Line, as London's transport infrastructure grows to meet growing demand.
© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection
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1987: Opening of London City Airport to meet the growing demand for business travel to and from the Docklands. The airport has welcomed 133,000 pbadengers in 1988 and three million in 2011. By 2030, an estimated eight million pbadengers.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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1990: The Entente Cordiale is very present while French and British engineers meet for the first time under the English Channel. The tunnel was the culmination of an idea first proposed by the French engineer Albert Mathieu in 1802. The completion of the tunnel represented a major technical achievement of the modern world.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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1991: The longest span suspension bridge in the UK opens on the Thames. The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge now carries 150,000 vehicles southbound per day.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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1994: The Queen and French President François Mitterrand open the Channel Tunnel, the first surface connection to continental Europe since the Ice Age. The tunnel is listed as one of the seven modern wonders of the world according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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2000: The first tramway for 50 years pbades through the center of Croydon with the launch of Tramlink, with £ 200 million.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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2003: A Eurostar train leaves the Channel Tunnel on the maiden voyage between Brussels and London via the new section of the Channel Tunnel rail link. State-of-the-art technology on the new HS1 route connects London to Paris in 2.15 hours by train.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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2008: Heathrow Airport opens terminal 5. More than 60,000 people participated in the construction of the British Airways terminal.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
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2010: launch of the Barclays Cycle Hire program. More than 10 million trips have already been made.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Press Association
14/14 TBM launch.jpg
2012: Crossrail begins to dig tunnels. Phyllis began moving into London in May to build the Crossrail tunnels, the new railway line under the capital. Each machine weighs 1000 tons and is more than 150 meters long, equivalent to 14 London buses. Some 200 million pbadengers would travel each year on Crossrail when it opens in 2018.
Image reproduced with the kind permission of Crossrail
It is expected that trains will run every 2.5 minutes in a city center between London Paddington and Whitechapel. There are intermediate stops at Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon and Liverpool Street.
The project is designed to increase the capital capacity of the capital by 10%, reduce travel times and reduce congestion on existing infrastructure, including the central line of the London Underground.
Another objective is to increase the proportion of pbadengers traveling to and from Heathrow by public transport.
Only in August 2018, four months before the scheduled opening, Crossrail Ltd had announced that the December deadline would not be met – but had insisted that it be open to "the autumn of 2019".
But the CAP states, "Since the stations and signaling systems are still far from complete and at least a new year of work now seems necessary, we find it hard to believe that this was not easy. in front of the public. announced in August 2018 that the central section of the railway would not be open in time. "
The committee is now concerned that Crossrail is over two years late, stating: "There are still some question marks around when it will be completed and when new train services will begin to work."
Meg Hillier of the Trade Union Committee said: "The pbadengers have been led to believe that they could use the new Crossrail services in central London from the end of last year.
"Instead, they were seriously disappointed by significant delays and cost overruns."
"The Ministry of Transportation, Transport for London and Crossrail Ltd continued to put a positive spin on the program long after more and more evidence should have spurred changes.
"Fanciful dreams are not a basis for spending public funds and the implementation of this program is still fraught with risks, a revised schedule and the costs of completing the remaining work.
"It is unacceptable that Parliament and the public are still unaware of the root causes of the failures that have plagued this project. Nor will we accept that the Department and Crossrail Ltd describe these serious problems as "system failures". "
A spokesman for the Ministry of Finance said the ministry had "constantly challenged Crossrail Ltd's leadership" over the project's implementation.
"As soon as the company recognized a delay, the department and TfL acted quickly to identify lessons to be learned, change the leadership of Crossrail Ltd 's board of directors, and strengthen governance and oversight.
"It is deeply disappointing that the Public Accounts Committee – which previously described the oversight of Crossrail as" a typical example of governance "- has not recognized any of the steps taken to ensure the completion of this vital project while protecting taxpayers."
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Crossrail Chief Executive Mark Wild said, "We take the views of the Public Accounts Committee very seriously and will carefully review their recommendations.
"It is clear that further work is needed to complete the infrastructure, the integration of the train, signaling systems and stations, as well as to carry out the extensive testing required to open a safe and reliable railway. . We are making progress in all of these areas and, in addition, we have put in place an improved governance structure and a new management team to strengthen the program. "
He promised that more details on the completion of the line would be provided later this month.
The PAC also said: "The costs of this project have been disproportionate." The DfT has granted Crossrail an additional £ 2.8 billion, nearly one-fifth of the initial budget.
The DfT stated that most of the additional funds needed for the project would be funded by London, not by UK taxpayers.
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