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Old June 1st 17, 07:21 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Crossrail 2 hits the buffers

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On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 15:11:16 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 01:49:09 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Corfield wrote:
You seem to think that Network Rail had independence to just splash =C2=A37=
00m on reopening Waterloo. It didn't. The responsibility for the delay si=

The points to NR exist, the platforms were perfectly servicable until they
started to demolish part them (for whatever reason, another excuse to waste
more taxpayers money) and train information boards were already fitted so

apart
from putting in some standard ticket gates what exactly needed to be done to
"reopen" these platforms and use them? Answer - absolutely **** all. It was
just incompetance and indifference all round.


As usual, your ignorance is causing you to grossly oversimplify things.


The infrastructure was in in place. Anything else is down to people.


No it wasn't. Take a look at what they're having to do in Waterloo:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/reclin...57673819851723