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[abigailbrady]

I always like to cite my sources. So when this happened

Stephen Pound: [talking about why PFI seemed like a good idea] Jubilee Line Extension was on time and on budget -

abigailb [interrupting]: NO IT WASN'T. IT WAS A YEAR LATE! CHECK HANSARD!

I feel the need to reference my heckle further.

So, the links are: here, where Baroness Hayman reports that "London Transport is planning to open the line in September 1998". A BBC news story from November 1999, reports "Jubilee Line finally opens". Westminster station was not to open until later, in December.

Comments

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Even that was only achieved by dropping moving block signalling from the original specification.

Muttermuttermutter...

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Yes. the heckle wasn't really the time to go in to that sort of thing, although perhaps:

AND IT WAS RUSHED! WHY DO YOU THINK IT'S BEEN CLOSED SO MUCH RECENTLY?

would have worked...

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

..and as for on budget...

And even within that budget, and even though I like the architecture on thle JLE, the stations were absurdly lavish. Money that would have been better spent on other new transport - they could have kicked off ELLX a decade early rather than goldplating the one new tube line we got in 20 years and making future new ones look totally unaffordable.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

It came in under budget? That surprises me, as the rest of the Underground was starved of investment (and maintenance!) to pay for the JLE.

[eponymousarchon.livejournal.com]

Cool! More power to your elbow! :)

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

I love you. You know that, right?