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1997-03-17 LRT-002
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New opening date for the Jubilee Line extension
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   New opening date for the Jubilee Line extension
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type Press release
London Transport announced today that it anticipates opening the Jubilee Line Extension at the end of September 1998. The original plan was to open the line on 28 March 1998.
London Transport Chairman Peter Ford said: "There has been recent
speculation about revision to our timetable.
Our project team and contractors have made tremendous progress with tunnelling now complete and much of the station work finished. There has been delay arising from the complexity of some work, particularly at Westminster and Canary Wharf. We also experienced a major delay on some contracts following the collapse of tunnels on the unrelated BAA project at Heathrow in October 1994, where the New Austrian Tunnelling Method was also being used.
"Risks remain with a project of such scale and which is being
built under old structures. The project embodies new technology in the control systems area and there will be a major challenge in the implementation phase. Nevertheless, we believe that September 1998 is an achievable date. It is a tough target, but one to which the project team and contractors are totally committed."
The £2.6 billion Jubilee Line Extension project will provide an Underground service reaching new standards of quality and linking Westminster with Docklands. It will extend to Stratford, a key interchange in East London, where there may well be a future connection with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Crucially, it will serve the Millennium site at North Greenwich.
Project Director Hugh Doherty added: "Although we cannot now open the whole line on 28 March 1998 we still anticipate delivering a great new transport link for London by the end of September 1998.
"We will open some sections earlier should it prove possible to do so. Our team of engineers and contractors has overcome massive obstacles and made excellent progress. I shall be proud to complete the project for London Underground who will have a first class railway for the 21st century embodying standards which have not been seen anywhere before anywhere in the world."
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