zen83237 wrote:

Metronet went bust because the parent companies pulled the plug because
they stood little chance of getting much of the predicted future
overspend of £2bn. I don't agree that they went bust because of the
difference between Metronet's cost overuns to date and the assessors
figure.
Anyway how does that have any relevance to comparing Metronets future
oversend of £2bn for work on 5 lines verses Tubelines predicted future
overspend on work on 3 lines.
Tubelines are so supposed to be super efficient and do all there jobs
for the estimated cost.

I suspect the *main* reason that there's little "Tublines bashing" going
on is that Tubelines seem to be more competent overall than Metronet
were, with few (if any) noticeable engineering overruns (compare and
contrast with the Waterloo and City Line and multiple overruns on the
Victoria Line, for example).

Talking of the Waterloo and City, does anyone know if the work that was
originally planned for the closure has finally been completed yet, or is
it still ongoing?

Cheers,

Barry