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.

Victorian railways were not unfamiliar with cost overruns and bankruptcies,
of course. I do wonder if any of them actually made a profit in the long
run.

Theo