London | Before London welcomes its first major new train line in decades on Tuesday, its boss has urged the Sydney and Melbourne metro projects to learn lessons from the Crossrail scheme’s £4 billion ($7 billion) cost blowout and four-year delay.
“Sydney and Melbourne are both pretty much at the point we were at when things fell apart in 2017-18,” Crossrail chief executive Mark Wild told The Australian Financial Review.
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