Vauxhall Step Free Access

o believe its still working behind hoarding

The Q4 Investment Report has this to say about the delay to work at Vauxhall.



There is a 68 day delay and a revised milestone of May 2016 that's clearly not been met. The overall SFA completion milestone is shown as 136 days late but looks like that's gone a bit sideways with "Late Summer 2016" being reported in the above text but not reflected in a revised date. Presumably no one is yet confident of a revised date. Worth saying though that the Q4 report has been published late because of the impact of purdah on the TfL meeting cycle.

I really hope TfL/LU are getting compensation from the contractor for this absurdly late delivery as the original completion date of the project was January! If "extra LUL resource" is required then presumably that's TfL's cost.

How can it take 6 months to sort out a bit of tiling?!

Unfortunately poor construction is all the rage these days. Especially for a public entity, the need to "Value Engineer" to bring costs down often results in a some rather shoddy workmanship. I work at a student center at a major US university which has just unveiled a brand new wing after 2 years of construction. Doors to the new wing opened about 6 months behind schedule, as there were so many mistakes with the fire systems, already broken areas, misaligned walls. It was very disappointing to see. As another aside our on-campus (American) football stadium underwent a major overhaul in the late 2000s, and the financial penalties for each day late were so staggering that the contractor had to work fast and well.

I'm sure LU/TfL don't have deep enough pockets to negotiate strong delay compensation for a couple of lifts, but there will a financial penalty in place if we're past the end of the project date.

Don't forget Roger Ford's Third Law
""Always mistrust schedules based on the seasons". "

By some definitions the first days of Spring and Autumn are the respective equinoxes, so most of September is in the summer. Meterologists go by calendar month, with winter being December to February and so on.

I go by the construction industry calendar.

"Winter" always means February
Early 2017 - April (or possibly even June if "mid" is not in their vocabulary)
Spring 2017 - May (or maybe even early June)
Mid 2017 - August
Summer 2017 - September
Autumn 2017 - November
late 2017 - December
"Christmas" - by Twelfth Night (January 5th)

The lift would indeed appear to be operative (not my tweet).

I actually tried the lift this morning. My observations are that the speed of the lift is much better than, for example, the lift at Euston Square. Looking out of the lift window, you can see that there is an emergency staircase that winds around it. It took me a moment to work out which way to turn when I came out of the lift, but the corridor that leads to the cross-passage between the platforms feels very spacious.