On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 04:34:55PM +0100, Graham Harrison wrote:
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:02:54 +0100, MikeS wrote:
On 26/08/2020 00:00, Graham Harrison wrote:
That is true but since Crossrail is a product of the subcontracting
ear (if I can call it that) you might wonder how much of the cost
overrun and delay is caused by subcontracting.
In that case you might also wonder how any of the railways of Britain
ever got built given that virtually all of them used contractors and
subcontractors.
True but there does seem to be a particular problem in this "modern"
era.

From which the conclusion has to be that sub-contracting per se is *not*
the main cause of the problem.

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