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Old January 5th 10, 07:26 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Guardian: Boris Johnson's TfL is pushing London Underground PPPdown the tubes

On 5 Jan, 17:44, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:57:46 -0000, "Recliner"



wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...hnson-tube-lin...


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Is it really true that Tube Lines is so much more efficient than the
now in-house run ex-Metronet contracts? *Is this simply because it
takes a while to unwind Metronet's inefficiencies, or just that Bechtel
and Ferrovial are very tough, efficient project managers? *If so, why
does David Begg think that the project should be 1.35bn cheaper than
Tube Lines reckons?


Do you mean Chris Bolt in your final sentence?

I'm afraid I am unable to comment further although the above are
interesting questions.
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Paul C


The Tories are in an intersting position, having to oppose PPP because
everyone thinks it's crap and they didn't set it up, but probably
secretly thinking it didn't go far enough and wishing they'd thought
of it long before.