Assembly frustrated over Crossrail delay explanations

Chair of Transport for London, Sadiq Khan and Transport for London (TfL) commissioner, Mike Brown MVO, today appeared before the London Assembly Transport Committee after being summonsed to answer questions on the Crossrail delay.

However, there is still a lack of clarity about who knew what and when.

The Committee has summonsed further documents from TfL in an effort to get the bottom of the issue.

Sir Terry Morgan has been invited to the next Transport Committee meeting on Wednesday 9^th January 2019 to give his view on who knew on events prior to his resignation.

Chair of the Transport Committee, Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM, said:

“It is very frustrating that despite a long meeting, with summonsed documents, the Mayor and the TfL commissioner speaking at length, we’re still far from understanding who knew what and when.

“What we’ve seen today is Sadiq Khan and Mike Brown sticking to their guns. They’re adamant that the information they were given through to August 2018 indicated the December 2018 deadline would be met.

“Yet the former chair Sir Terry say he informed the Mayor and TfL in July. The Mayor suggested he must have ‘misremembered’ events. We will put that suggestion to Sir Terry in early January.

“Someone between these two parties is not giving a full account and we will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of this.

“Londoners have a right to trust the people making decisions on their behalf and with their money”.