On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:16:08 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 13:31:10 on
Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Recliner remarked:

the fact remains that it's our most depressed industry and needs the
work (perhaps the Olympics work helped keep some companies afloat).

Odd then, that the construction of Crossrail was apparently delayed
deliberately to after the Olympics, because trying to do it before would
have over-stretched the construction industry.

Quite -- we need one major project at a time, not zero or two. That's
probably why HS2 is planned for after Crossrail. Incidentally, the
paucity of other work probably kept the Olympic construction costs
down and reduced the risks of strikes. But this was nevertheless a
very well-managed project, quite unlike, say, Wembley Stadium.