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Crossrail engineers inspect completed tracks in October 2018
RAIL union leader Manuel Cortes has demanded a parliamentary inquiry into the “badly delayed and over budget” running of the Crossrail project.
The TSSA general secretary made the call in a letter to Huw Merriman, who is the incoming chairman of the transport select committee.
In the letter, he asks the committee to “consider an inquiry into why this vital piece of infrastructure, which would increase rail capacity by 10 per cent across the capital, is so badly delayed and over budget.”
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
A just transition to Great British Railways and a clean and safe railway for all is not only desirable but also necessary. MARYAM ESLAMDOUST explains