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There are some parallels here to London's troubled Crossrail project. Politicians and civil servants took their eyes of the ball and turned project management a

There are some parallels here to London's troubled Crossrail project. Politicians and civil servants took their eyes of the ball and turned project management almost completely over to the private sector. For years, everything was apparently going fine and the project was on time and on budget. Suddenly, just weeks before it was supposed to open in 2018, it was revealed to be years behind and potentially billions over budget. https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/true-scale-of-crossrail-problems-laid-bare/10038753.article https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/true-scale-of-crossr... (And, for an even more crazy civil construction project failure, see Berlin Brandenberg Airport)

dvdkhlng 8y ago
For the Berlin Brandenburg Airport story, have a look here: https://onemileatatime.com/berlin-brandenburg-airport/ Everybody expected it to open in 2012, people even got plane tickets for flights departing from there, but then it never opened. With all the cost accumulated since then, it would have been cheaper (and faster) to just tear it down and rebuild from scratch.
- oftenwrong 8y ago
  https://onemileatatime.com/berlin-brandenburg-airport/ https://onemileatatime.com/berlin-brandenburg-airport/
bjourne 8y ago
Same thing with NKS construction in Stockholm: https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=6268658 https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&ar... The common denominator is CONSULTANTS and an over reliance on the private sector to get things done. Consultants get paid proportionally to the number of hours they bill. It is obvious that that doesn't optimize for efficiency. But politicians fall for the same trick again and again...