Construction industry gossip: Look, darling, it's twins!

By Hansom2019-05-31T05:00:00

Doppelgangers, parallel versions of Shoreditch and a man of God speaks doom and gloom

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Crossrail boss Mark Wild has spent a lot of time recently explaining to MPs and members of the London Assembly just how late the project is going to be – which, given what some of his predecessors have recently said, might be news to them. At another meeting last week, this time the bi-monthly board get-together of Transport for London, TfL boss Mike Brown pointed out what a large chunk of time this was. It was good, he said, that all this scrutiny was going on in public but it was important that those overseeing the project were “allowing Mark some time to run the damn thing”. This prompted one wag in the Building office to quip: “About time someone did.”

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