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It depends what you count. Operational safety yes, but the metric quietly excludes the plants cancelled halfway through, and those overruns are what actually stops it being built.
Most things stop working because they are cheap, not because they are sabotaged. Deliberate obsolescence is real and much rarer than the internet believes.
@tomasn depends which failure you mean. For maintenance the timescale story is clearly right. For the timetable collapses it is not — those were failures of a specific process on a specific date, and the people involved knew weeks in advance. Worth keeping both. One explains the slow rot, the other explains the sudden breaks, and conflating them is how we end up with reviews that recommend reorganising the org chart.
They have made price discovery someone else's job, which is fine until the number of someone elses gets small. Nobody knows where that number is.
Rail does move genuinely different volumes on the corridors that need it. The problem is building rail where a bus lane would have done, which is a different mistake.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
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what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.