Crossrail delayed until autumn 2019

London’s £15bn Crossrail project is to open nine months after its scheduled launch. The route had been due to open in December, but will now be launched in autumn 2019 "to ensure a safe and reliable railway", transport officials said. Crossrail Limited described the 10-year project as "hugely complex", and said "further time" was required for testing, and that contractors needed to complete work in the central tunnels and to develop "railways systems software". In other transport news, the Canary Wharf Group has lodged an objection to plans to redevelop Canada Water should be revised, and that the Bakerloo line should instead be extended to Canary Wharf.

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