A lesson plan to stop transport projects going off the rails

What can be done to tackle the chronic problems of major transport projects going over budget and missing delivery dates? The DfT and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority think they have some answers. Andrew Forster reports

There have been plenty of transport project delivery disasters in recent years. Most of the really big ones have affected rail schemes, for instance: the delay and cost overruns to Crossrail; last year’s new timetable meltdowns on Northern and Thameslink; the mushrooming cost and delays to Great Western railway electrification; the unravelling of Network Rail’s enhancement programme; and, going back a little further to 2012, the collapse of the DfT’s West Coast Main Line...

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