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Will HS2 Fail or Succeed?

Dave Perton
I believe it will do both, it just depends on the measure you use. In an project there are three measures of success or failure, cost, time-scale and outcome and I believe it will fail on two but succeed on the most important and have set out my argument in a blog post here https://communities.theiet.org/groups/blogpost/view/27/231/6920


The project is so complex to think costs will not overrun or timing slip is to be naive, as it is impossible to predict them when the timescales are so long and the complexity so great, but the outcome will be a success
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    John Peckham:

    Cross Rail is another example of massive cost overrun and years behind programme with consultants and contractors milking the tax payer for what should have already been done having been paid for first time around. 

     


    On behalf of those engineering consultants and contractors, whether members of the IET or of other PEIs, I don't find that a terribly helpful comment. I suggest you talk to them, you will find they are as frustrated as you are. As engineers they want to see the job done and people travelling on the trains. There's no satisfaction in a half finished job.


    Or else I suppose you could cheer that the delays are giving more jobs for engineers, but that's not a cheer I'll personally join in with.


    Andy


    (I'm not currently working on Crossrail, but I have in the past and many of my colleagues still are.)


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    John Peckham:

    Cross Rail is another example of massive cost overrun and years behind programme with consultants and contractors milking the tax payer for what should have already been done having been paid for first time around. 

     


    On behalf of those engineering consultants and contractors, whether members of the IET or of other PEIs, I don't find that a terribly helpful comment. I suggest you talk to them, you will find they are as frustrated as you are. As engineers they want to see the job done and people travelling on the trains. There's no satisfaction in a half finished job.


    Or else I suppose you could cheer that the delays are giving more jobs for engineers, but that's not a cheer I'll personally join in with.


    Andy


    (I'm not currently working on Crossrail, but I have in the past and many of my colleagues still are.)


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