QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ Nov 8 2016, 10:24 PM)
Why can no one ever cost Projects properly? Its not just railtrack etc. Everything is always over budget becuase they bid knowing its not possible. Just to win the bl00dy contract. Sorry thats my rant over!!!
To be blunt, in reality it is just a big civil engineering job; nothing extraordinary and something we've been doing for two hundred years, so I don't think that's an unreasonable rant. We are told often enough that 'good project management' is the key to everything these days, yet we rarely see it. And as you say, its not just Railtrack, so arguably, it's a very sad indictment of British capability which doesn't bode well for the future.