ES: Crossrail at risk of being delayed even further
"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at
14:49:51 on Sat, 13 Jul 2019, michael adams
remarked:
Mayor Sadiq Khan strengthened the scrutiny powers of Jacobs to reveal
problems with Crossrail and increase the project's transparency.
Is he trying to distance himself from the project's failings, despite
being in charge
the last three and a bit years?
Being in charge ?
Anyone capable of taking overall charge of the largest infrastructure
project in Europe would command a far higher salary and have far fewer
extraneous responsibilities, than does the elected Mayor of London.
You are confusing strategic and operational.
Or put the other way, as with most levels in politics anyone capable of
taking overall charge of the largest infrastructure project in Europe -
or any aspect therein come to that wouldn't touch any such elected
position with a bargepole.
The Mayor's entire role is to be in charge politically and
strategically. Otherwise he
simply disappears in a puff of logic.
But the reasons the project has been delayed are purely operational.
The strategy was to hire contractors capable - as far as anyone could
judge of fulfilling their particular contracts on time and within
budget.
If the contractors failed to fulfil their contract on time and within
budget this will have for purely operational reasons which they failed
to consider when tendering for the project.
Or are you suggesting Khan should have chosen different contractors ?
I'm suggesting he should have had people monitoring what the contractors
were doing, and more to the point monitoring how well the TfL people
supposed to be managing the contractors were doing.
If only because as in this instance with Kahn, they'd only lay
themselves open to ill-informed and tendentious criticism from craven
opportunists such as yourself.
I bet I'm more qualified than you to comment on this scenario,
So how many such major infrastructure projects have you been personally
involved in then Roland ?
Several. That's my original day-job.
infrastructure ?????
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