Yet another London cockup

[tonymidd]

Following the dome, a bridge that wobbled, a French eye, we now have a stadium that's costing twice as much as planned, months over due and only usable for one sport. Makes you wonder don't it.:ok:

[lostmysnorkel]

How on earth are we going to be ready for the olympics?

Still, it would appear that the construction company have to swalliow the overcost, but be prepared for some long and protracted legal arguments over it in the next few years.

Wish I was a lawyer..........

[tonymidd]

How on earth are we going to be ready for the olympics?

Not a problem if it were Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds or anywhere up north, we get on with it rather than talking about it. :bum1:

[Stemmy]

And yet you look at the Allianz Football Stadium in Germany that changes colour. Built not just on time but finished early and on budget. The budget being millions less than the new Wembley

[StuG]

I don't think the location has anything to do with the problems, it's the idiots they put in charge of the project that cock it up.
I would like to know why it is costing so much, afterall the milleium stadium was only a fraction of the cost. :confused:

[BarryM]

same thing happened up here with the scottish parliment building, took years longer, cost millions more and was inquests and of course the blame passed onto somoene that had died and couldnt defend himself (sorted now though i think). It makes me wonder that the people with the the initial thought of design and planning and costing why are these people not booted out their job. If any one of us was building a house for someone, then it cost an extra few hundred thousand and was 4 years late in building, i dont think we would have much of a job or reputation left.

[Alan Schofield]

That's why we are all photographers not builders etc :spam: :spam:

We get the job done :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:


If we don't we can't eat, That's the difference

Alan

[england1965]

In defence of the FA (I'd better sit down now) ...it was a fixed price contract - so Multiplex pick up the extra costs.

Doesn't help the events that were supposed to be there - nor the image of the FA and Multiplex (the builders). Still, at least the FA can afford to pay off Sven now

Cheers

Mark

[tonymidd]

Lets face it, it's the wrong building(only useable for one sport) in the wrong place(getting into and out of London is time consuming and expensive).
It's about time that other parts of the UK had more done for them, why everything has to go to the overcrowed, overpriced SE beats me.

[StuG]

Wrong building possibly, wrong place ? Not in my opinion, the national stadium should be in the capital.
Travelling anywhere in this country is time consuming and expensive.

If people from other parts of the country (and elsewhere) didn't keep moving to the South East it wouldn't be so overcrowded and over priced ;)c

[tonymidd]

You've only got to look at a map to see that both the stadium (it's only the national football stadium it should have been a national multi-purpose unit) and the capital are in the wrong place :banned:

[lostmysnorkel]

As a Mancunian, now living in London I beg to disagree .... and agree.......

YES - the national stadium should be in the Capitol, it's the Capitol that's in the wrong place!

NO- the stadium shouldn't be used for multi-sports. Once you sling a running track around the pitch the atmosphere drops exponentially (bit like the 'Inverse Square Law' when setting your flash heads)

The common theme through those projects already mentioned:

CARDIFF: Allowed to get on with it
MANCHESTER: Commonwealth Games, allowed to get on with it
SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT - Government Involvement
WEMBLEY - Government Involvement.

Wembley was a privately owned and operated facility, the FA 'bought into' it to control costs. It remained a privately owned facility. Why on earth would the government plough in, hold teh whole thing up for two or three years arguing over whether or not tehre should be a running track, sand pit, horse jumps, race track and dominoes arena included.

If they thought the country really needed one of those, why can't they build it themselves instead of hijacking a privately run project?

Just don't get me going on how 'we will all benefit from the Olympics'!!!!:crazy: