youre right!

Boooooommm!

🤔 Gee, do you all think that was just a coincidence? 😆

Yeah !

Oh waw

Ah he put that down to (rightly or wrongly, perhaps with justification) before his tenure at Crossrail, so he was talking about someone else.

Why should he be worried he’s still getting paid his huge salary for doing fuck all

he doesn't take any responsibility at all

Why does the CEO's home like a cheap rental flat for a college student? I thought he'd be living in a palace given the salary he earns.

@@dennisd9914 well London has high property value ig

Also v fit! 🔥

@@rioter007 Bringing big guns to a construction channel

True, but have you ever heard about Tom Scott?

Speaking of which, I think he got a haircut

Most of the extra costs can be put down to government dithering for over a decade. Remember Wembley Stadium? They talked and talked for ten years! and expected it to be done in two!!!

Once it is up and running, people won't even know what they've got. They will just complain when a train is 3 minutes late.

Well said.

Transportation projects are (almost) always a good investment. Not just my opinion, history has shown us.

It’s all stock footage and renders, other channels actually go to places

how do they know that they are not boring thru anything important?

China could've have built this in 5 years the British are so slow

@@davidwright873 Utility asset records and ground radar surveys, plus clever navigation protocols on the TBM. If it’s historical value you’re concerned about the archeological team has that covered.

@@danwiddon3854 I was thinking mostly utilities...or water i gues..But Im guessing it's pretty damn deep before the go horizontal huh?

Normally, I would agree with you, but right now I'm not feeling it. Rail is particularly vulnerable to vandalism and terrorism. And the UK seems perfectly happy to let terrorism exist within its borders; especially "free range" terrorism.

It’s a video producing company. Come on. It’s not 2 guys with an iPhone. It’s a content farm.

“pretty nice” more like incredible and AndyRob get a grip of yourself

Agree, same from me

@@justaskin8523 The only way to overcome adversaries is to move forward without them

Savvy comment. 👍

Good for people in London …….not the rest of the UK (HS2 cancelled past Birmingham)

@@triumphman Thought Phase 2 was still a go for the stretch from Birmingham to Manchester? Granted schedules have been pushed back a bit...

Plenty in the project will have known. But large projects like these are usually headed up by useless, self-absorbed tossers who are too weak to handle bad news. They only want clapping seals and party poppers.

@@triumphman I'd never go to Birmingham

I have heard that bridge construction companies operate under the same principle. Bridges longer than several hundred meters are concidered megaprojects and contractors either avoid those or make the government guarantee the continued support through delays, over budgeted costs and any other unforseen problems.

@@oditeomnes Absolutely with almost any stressed structure. Over a certain point you are pretty much faced with the square law on cost.

I am a civil engineer and have worked on manyLONDON UNDERGROUND projects. You cannot begin to imagine the difficulties involved with running such a vast network. Several friends of mine are involved in this, and the difficulties really are never ending.

@@stevefowler3398 Even the primitive projects. Circle line, estimate the bricks ouch!

Very interesting thank you for sharing! Plonking this in my miscellaneous knowledge bank very happily. It could come in useful in future. Really helpful. Good day to you sir!

Every London station can claim that title anyway

Like No nothing whatsoever in towns & cities in the North? I live in a city which was decimated by Thatcher nearly 40 years ago. Not for financial reasons for pure hatred of Northern Union men. We were the biggest ship building town in Europe & have built ships for over 600 years. We had just secured orders for 32 Roro ferries her own minister tasked with closing these profitable yards begged her to keep them open. She refused a management buy out. She then proceeded to sign a deal with the EU that made it illegal for Sunderland to build a ship for the next 25 years. Mwaming the loss of all tradesman all skills & the yards going to rot. No reason but pure hatred given for the crime. Now you know why Sunderland was the 1st result in to leave the EU, nothing to do with racism or being thick as was directed our way. Now think of the amount of steel from steel works & suppliers. Then a couple of years later shes left a stain that still today or today its worse than its been socially. She shit all the coal mines down. Now imagine this Sunderland & the surrounding area had a population of over 1 million people. Sunderland was basically mainly a group of Pit villages that boundaries over lapped through population growth. So now wr has a situation of the 2nd biggest mass employer being closed. By the way Sunderland football stadium is built on top of the most profitable super pit in the UK. Was I should say the most profitable. Now you'd think your own gov after committing crimes against humanity over 40 years ago would think. Maybe they deserve a little bit of cash for regeneration. Nope haven't even got a motorway here. Haven't even got signs for the area on the nearest motorway. Not even Signs can you imagine that

@@DavyRo spiteful old bag she was, but only taking orders. If the last 2 years is anything to go by, our leaders are pretenders, and all their descisions are made elsewhere.

@@DavyRo The lack of investment in the north is a joke. I say that as Londoner. There has to be significant investment in infrastructure both within the northern and midland cities, plus investment in the linking together of these cities. Not sure when it will happen though.

Crossrail has been fully operational for over a year. Yet wont be fully operational for another year, or more….. Sounds legit…

Well said.

I agree. I also live in Ottawa and very embarrassed by our amateur councillors and incomplete contractors

This is a common situation in small cities which are not experienced in larger infrastructure builds compounded by hiring the wrong companies.

Its much easier to sell the re-use of existing and disused infrastructure. The costs of tying together all the loose ends are conveniently ignored. Util the ** hits the fam and the end result is worse than useless. NASA's white elephant SLS rocket is another example. It re-uses shuttle technology (yay) but each launch, if it ever happens, will cost $1 Billion. Meanwhile Elon starts a greenfield company and has regular flights of reusable rockets operating at a tiny fraction of anything that NASA can do.

Hs2 is a fascinating adventure into how political interference and mismanagement can ruin a good idea. The media around the project is also a dumpster fire.

Elizabeth line is amazing! It's really important that we provide high quality underground transport for our wealthy ruling elite in London while people outside London (like me) walk or take the bus and are rightfully excluded!

@@engineeringvision9507 dam right peasant, why do you need to get off your lord's manor

I’m still trying to get over that a subway line was named Jubilee. It’s anything but!

@@engineeringvision9507 take it up with your council. vote for local MPs who will deliver the budget required to your area. i dont live in england anymore and yes i was a londoner but i took the LNER to york recently (right before pandemic) and i saw perfectly good infrastructure there even though its nowhere near london.

What a beautiful nation though. Just don't risk a train journey in this region (I live Serbia) deathtrap tracks, no ballast, pins missing or loose, sleepers rotten

Ah yes...Classic Italian Infrastructure project schedules.

I’m still waiting for the Mona Lisa to be finished

@@rik8809 Hahaha!

I recall reading somewhere that they run into new archeological finds all the time which halts the works for months each time. Fascinating, but very unfortunate for any new building projects.

@@Silveirias The gossip was that when the third metro line was being built in Rome, archaeological finds were ignored after a time

There’s also the fact that the Elizabeth line has to be squeezed into an already tight underground space, especially in the central core where most of the stations are interchange with existing, old, deep level tube lines. Yes the technology is better, but the risks are greater, too! Still, fair play to them for getting it done.

I'd rather have cost overruns and delays (Though if those are bad enough, then we need to have a good look at the reasons.) than workplace deaths and injuries myself.

@LegosheepIsAwsome good point there!

On a project of this scale a cost overun of this size sounds horrible but given the time line, the complexity and the unknowns/unforseen (hard to know everything about the ground you are boring in and COVID) the cost over run is not totally unreasonable. Well done in a great city! Mike 🇨🇦 🍁 👍

Lego, I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by hundreds of workers mysteriously becoming ill ... is that a common thing for people working Underground ?

it’s a completely waste of money. also destroyed an astounding amount of irreplaceable wildlife

You've got to remember than companies bid on these projects and the lowest bidder wins in almost all cases. Despite how scary that sounds. Going 'over budget' just means they're making it fit to specifications rather than just working luckily for us.

@@ip5799 Yeah, most of the 'wildlife' in the megacity of london and the famous wildlife 100m underground. Its hardly a problem even for the overground sections, maybe 40 miles of brownfield land.

Has anyone ever heard of a mega project that was delivered on time and within budget?

@@ip5799 What are you talking about? It's a giant underground tunnel. They've created Europe's biggest wetland nature reserve with the spoil at Wallasea island. I think you might be a little confused pal.

You're so right. Many here in Denver complained about cost overruns and problems with the building of Denver International Airport in the mid 90's. Today, it's one of the world's busiest airports. It was an excellent investment.

Let's not forget the overruns and delays we had with the Sydney Opera House. An overrun that eventually got the building and our beautiful harbour World Heritage status, not to mention tons of local and tourist dollars.

It is some socialist plot to divert funds away from global conquest for gasoline.

Come to the UK and find out (not necessarily London, any reasonably large conurbation - there are many here)

A thing Republicans are afraid of. One of many.

Something with taxes, which you most likely also are unfamiliar with, or will hate even more than public transport. - though there is high possibility of daily close contact with nice women. If that counts as a benefit ...

Public transport is an industry which employs vast numbers of featherbedded Union members and confiscates vast amount of public money .

Who will keep Pret afloat if office workers prefer home working

Yup

No one is going back to offices. You don’t need to waste money and time commuting into a smog filled city to do your work. That was already known pre-pandemic and it’s only geriatric dinosaurs who argue otherwise.

I can’t any reason I would want to go back into the office.

A senior rail manager explained it to me like this. If I want a 10 metre escalator. I can phone 3 companies who will quote me a firm price and completion date guarantees. If I want a 30 Metre escalator, I have no companies so have to put it to tender. Those 3 escalator companies would rather install 100 10 metre units compared with one 30. Forget guaranteed completion dates Then you multiply this through the project.

Toronto Eglinton LRT: “Hold my beer”

Bits of the north....it even avoided some of the biggest cities like Liverpool and Newcastle

@@_5_675 the plan with Liverpool was always to connect HS2 to Northern Power House HS3. Not that, that will probably happen now. Regarding Newcastle it just isn't needed the lines are getting upgraded and connected instead the lines aren't near to capacity and its much more efficient upgrading there

@@dalecn2417 no, a potential link to so-called hs3 was never part of the plan as hs3 didn't even exist on paper when hs2 was announced. The plan was to swerve away to exclude the second largest conurbation in the North, and build 3 hs2 stations in Greater Manchester despite an insufficient local demand base. Where was the then Chancellor the MP for I wonder?

@@_5_675 serving Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle requires a bit of a swerve no? Surely by then you’d be looking at other lines and interchanges.

@@cjeam9199 no, west coast mainline serves Manchester and Liverpool perfectly well, it goes up the middle between them, there was no need to swerve the line away from the Labour voters by the coast. Newcastle would benefit from improved speeds to Leeds and Edinburgh, you are off a bit if you imagine hs2 westerly leg was capable of serving it.

Well said! It has had its problems but was always an ambitious project, so it's not surprising. I agree that it really is something to be proud of and, when it does open, people will appreciate the attention to detail shown by the team, esp since Mark Wild got involved. Crossrail two will be a big beneficiary in my view.

Or workplace/on-site deaths with the stadium for the Tokyo Olympics.

No I disagree! The Elizabeth Line is much more major of a project. it will change lives for everyone living near it. Everyone takes good public transport for granted including Londoners. The Stadium constructions won't affect people in the long term just the short term

We will be glad to see you David! Want a driver eye view? Watch on you tube:- "Elizabeth Line(Crossrail) Abbey Wood to Westbourne Park" Drivers eye view. You note that each station has a glass wall at the platform edge (passenger safety) This has sliding glass panels that open directly opposite the trains doors, which open together dead in line!

@@johnchristmas7522 What you refer to are known as Paltform Screen Doors. These are pretty common now on new metro transit systems in Europe and Asia.

@@milesarcher. Well, we to ,are quite capable, its just that our government still lives in Victorian times. So its exciting when things catch up.

@@johnchristmas7522 Agreed. It's not a capability thing. I doubt these doors are difficult to implement. It's the willingness to accept the need and spend the money.

Yes it is also are u from North America?

@@Mgameing123 yes.

Charles Lynch. He wasn’t in charge when things were going wrong.

@@oldman1734 oh that explains a lot actually 🧐

@@oldman1734 Well said. It’s nice to hear the facts.

Mark Wild is a man of integrity and honesty.

Welllll I’m sure that’s not the only thing. Every complaint and consultation causes delays, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do them.

@@cjeam9199 I guess I just have a really hard time believing that a massive public works project would be restricted to using two 9-meter holes in a less prosperous part of the city/country. It reeks of financial influence.

@@Kindhamster …..yeahhh that is probably true as well. Fair point.

SF spent $20B ???

Wait, only one of the 41 Crossrail stations is going to have modern safety features like trackside doors?

@@krashd no. its on all underground Crossrail stations. overground ones won't because I don't know

Same here!

I love his voice and accent!!

All lies

I think they wanted to have the quality of space rather them being the same size as some of the old tube lines.

@@86wellacre Yes, but it has been very costly in terms of bangs-per-buck. It will also be a less reliable service than a self-contaIned tube could have provided - it will be vulnerable to delays on two main lines.

You know that Crossrail a) has much higher capacity b) it can extend much further out of the city

Crossrail has a passenger capacity that is IMMENSELY higher than what a tube line has. You could have built it as a tube, if you were okay with only getting a third of the passenger capacity. Furthermore, the wider tunnel of the Crossrail line provides much greater safety in case an evacuation is needed, since passengers can leave through the side doors. In a tube train, all passengers must leave through one of the driver cabs, which means that the train cannot be evacuated quickly.

@@wasmic5z One-third of the capacity? How do you work that out? The Jubilee Line operates 30 trains per hour. Operating on the main line leads a less reliable service. We have seen this for decades on Thameslink. A disruption at Luton leads to disruptions at Preston Park a couple of hours later, and vice versa. It is the well known effect of joining separate networks together: disruption is propagated from one network to the other. The most reliable routes are simple end-to-end lines such as the Victoria Line. A mostly underground line inside London will not be prone to the vagaries of the weather. Overhead electrification adds another source of unreliability. If you look through the list of accidents on the tube, there appears to be not a single fatality due to the inability to evacuate trains through the side doors. The majority of fatal accidents on London Underground have occurred in the open air sections. The worst accident involving a tube train undergound appears to have been the high speed collision at Moorgate in 1975. Being able to evacuate through side doors would not have prevented any fatalities in that case. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_London_Underground_accidents