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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.

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

Shipyards started cutting steel for the first aircraft carrier before the design was finalised. This was done (according to some) to make it harder for the incoming Government to cancel the project.

They didn’t cancel the project and instead requested a major design change to support higher performance fighter planes (catapult instead of STOVL), only to reverse that decision when they saw the ultimate price tag. The result was the mother of all project change request queues.

Yeah, that project too was delayed a bit and went somewhat over budget

[–] 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.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

what clown was running it before