London Banter - View Single Post - Thameslink project (i.e. TL2K) gets legal & planning go-ahead

Colin Rosenstiel · October 20th 06, 09:39 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On 20 Oct 2006 05:42:13 -0700, "Mizter T"
wrote:
For all the ignorant souls such as I can you say when the
Statement of Funds Available is normally, er, stated?

It is a new requirement that flows from the legislative disaster
area that the government has foisted on itself via the latest Railways
Act.

The govt have to provide the HLOS and the SOFA and then ORR have to
decide if SOFA can deliver the HLOS and if not decide that either a
smaller HLOS is needed or a bigger SOFA!

HLOS - high level output statement (for the rail network). What govt
wants to "buy".
SOFA - statement of funds available. how much is in the piggy bank
that Uncle Gordon has given the baby Alexander.
ORR - Office of Rail Regulation. The new fall guys for railway cuts
- lovingly placed in the firing line by the civil servant loonies at
DfT Rail.

and, according to my spell-checker, DfT should be "daft". Seems fair to
me.

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Colin Rosenstiel