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HS2 boss reveals three reasons why project is years late and billions over budget (www.standard.co.uk)

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Let me guess:

Bidding process gave work to the lowest bidders regardless of wether it was possible to do the work for that price.
Government kept on re-evaluating decisions leading to a stop/start culture and a fear of committing to the work.
The above leading to a bunch of missed dependencies and work needing to be redone.

Now off to read the article.

Edit: not a million miles off, but "starting before the plan was mature" wasn't on my bingo card.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 days ago

Meh, potato, potahto, kind of just another way of saying the same thing. Bureaucracy always suffers these kinds of challenges, government even worse than businesses do.

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