"Barry Salter" wrote in message
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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

The concensus that I heard was that Metronet had the more difficult
contracts in the early years and that Tubelines difficult contracts were
later on. So although Metronet stumbled early Tubelines would be seen to be
not quite as brilliant as they appear in later years.
I will be interested to see how the Northern resignalling goes once it
really gets going if the resignalling of the almost new, by comparison,
Jubilee line is anything to go by.

Kevin

On Sep 12, 7:59*pm, "Zen83237" wrote:
You accept that Tubelines overspend is entirely justified the. Do you work
fot Tubelines by any chance.

No - I'm assuming that the PPP Arbiter is doing his job fairly and
impartially. He has ruled that Metronet's overspend was unjustified
and that Tube Lines's projected overspend is justified. If you have
any evidence that he is not doing his job fairly and impartially, you
should send it to TfL and the Treasury urgently.

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