Ex-chief executives Andrew Wolstenholme and Simon Wright set to front the London Assembly鈥檚 transport committee
Crossrail鈥檚 previous two chief executives are set to face questions from the London Assembly about what has gone wrong on the 拢17.6bn project.
Andrew Wolstenholme, who is now the group managing director of maritime and land UK at BAE Systems, and Simon Wright, who is still a consultant to Crossrail, have been "invited to ... discuss this issue [the delay]" by the Assembly's transport committee when it meets next Thursday (14 March), according to papers published ahead of the meeting.
Wolstenholme took up the top job at Crossrail in September 2011, joining from Balfour Beatty where he was the director of innovation and strategic capability at the firm.
Wright, who was already serving as programme director on the scheme, added the chief executive position to his job title when Wolstenholme's tenure came to an end in March 2018.
Wolstenholme was handed a near 拢98,000 pay out for compensation for loss of office, in both Crossrail's latest report and TfL's annual report published last summer. He