Crossrail almost at `dress rehearsals´ ahead of possible February 2022 開始
Crossrail is 始める，決める to have its “dress rehearsals” this year and could open by February 2022, MPs have been told.
The 輸送（する） for London (TfL) 事業／計画（する） has 直面するd problems in a number of areas, 含むing construction work and signalling systems, with the 衝撃 of coronavirus also costing it £230 million, it has been said.
However, Crossrail Ltd 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 示す Wild told the Public Accounts 委員会 on Monday afternoon that 成果／努力s to 完全にする the 鉄道 are “going 井戸／弁護士席”.
He said: “With the 現在の schedule at the moment we’re in the 段階 of 裁判，公判 running which is the penultimate 行う／開催する／段階 of Crossrail before we enter something called 裁判，公判 操作／手術s.
“So where we are at the moment, 12 trains are running, we are shaking the system 負かす／撃墜する, this 過程 takes several months to shake up all the faults out of it.
“At the same time we are doing the final 統合，差別撤廃 実験（する）ing, and when them two things 最高潮に達する later in autumn, our 裁判，公判 操作／手術s will begin which really are the dress rehearsals.
“From the day we enter 裁判，公判 操作／手術s the 開始 of the 鉄道 is a short number of weeks away from that.”
He 確認するd the 鉄道 could open by February at the earliest.
Speaking about the 衝撃 of coronavirus, Mr Wild told the 委員会: “Covid has had two 衝撃s really, it’s cost us about £230 million 続けざまに猛撃するs, so it’s had a 財政上の 影響.
“The time 影響 of Covid is probably 中立の because we did a reasonably good 職業 when the pandemic happened, we’ve 回復するd all of the 生産／産物 that we lost.
“So the 影響 of Covid on Crossrail has unfortunately been more cost-圧力, which is of course the last thing we would need.”
The 鉄道 ? to be known as the Elizabeth Line ? will run from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey 支持を得ようと努めるd in the east, 経由で central London.
It was 最初 予定 to be 完全にするd in December 2018 and was 始める，決める a 予算 of £ 14.8 billion in 2010, however the line is planned to 部分的に／不公平に open in the first half of next year.
The 委員会 heard that 旅行s from Heathrow Airport to Canary Wharf would take just over 30 minutes.
Matt 宿泊する, of the Department for 輸送（する）, told the 委員会 he 推定する／予想するs Crossrail to be fully opened by May 2023.
TfL Commissioner Andy Byford 追加するd that some services could take place in September 2022, which he said is “markedly earlier” than 推定する／予想するd.
