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The beleaguered £20billion Crossrail line has been delayed yet again to next May with critics urging project bosses to have 'some real honesty' about its progress.
Transport for London had pledged it would be open in the first six months of 2022.
The Elizabeth Line trains will run under the capital and were billed as way to encourage use of public transport.
But the bloated project has been beset by problems, including the coronavirus pandemic. It had been supposed to be finished by April 2019.
And Jacobs, the watchdog looking at how it has been progressing, said it was going to be delayed.
Its latest report said: 'There are considerable challenges in almost every delivery area of the Programme.
'It is evident that there is insufficient time for target dates to be met and that pressure is increasing on the achievement of the start of Trial Operations on the deterministic date of November 2021.
'We do not believe it will be possible for CRL to deliver full Trial Operations on that date.
Elizabeth Line - which is named after the Queen - has been delayed yet again to May 2022
Entrance to Crossrail underground works using Kingsway subway entrance in Holborn, London
'The forecast P50 date for the start of Trial
