The original High Speed rail from St Pancras to Paris seemed to have gone quite well. Crossrail appears to have had bonuses to the original management for cons

The original High Speed rail from St Pancras to Paris seemed to have gone quite well. Crossrail appears to have had bonuses to the original management for constructing the tunnels, I’m not too sure on the details but what is far more galling that the illusion of a Dec 2018 carried on to a few months before. Warning I’ve just read snippets following this, so following could well be wrong: Seemingly enough time had been scheduled to run the trains to shake out systems, as well as finish building. Bond Street build was delayed due to the site being tight, the original contractors were replaced by TfL itself. Enough time to run tests on the fittings so that the could be proven to be in compliance hadn’t be catered for. If this was an issue I would have thought that could have been started much earlier. Signalling issues, as mentioned. The trains have to integrate with three different signalling systems. I believe Project Management itself grew from the UK government having early issues with delivery. Systems aren’t getting any simpler. A society that can plan, fund, build, and maintain large to huge infrastructure projects would have a huge advantage.