Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 11:28:24 on
Mon, 5 Aug 2013, Recliner remarked:
I'm astonished by the assertion that this project is "supporting" the
equivalent of 13,800 full time jobs. Can that be correct?

I've not seen the maths, but I wonder how many of those jobs are in
the UK?

Crossrail say they have 7,000 jobs "working directly on Crossrail at over
40 construction sites"

Most of the rest are in the supply chain (in which I include the
"dragging away the spoil" chain).

For example, the expensive TBMs are all German

I'm not sure those would be counted in the 13,800 jobs, because their
construction finished ages ago.

There are probably more man-hours involved in the UK keeping them
maintained, than there were in Germany building them.

Not all of the TBMs are yet in use, so the were definitely German jobs
involved in their construction in 2012.