It's this sort of farce that is why projects here are so expensive: the
winning bid gets to specify everything, and there's an incentive for them
to add on various "innovative" features. When I said that Anglosphere
countries are bad at project management (despite, or perhaps because of the
hordes of project managers), this is what I meant: we don't have central
authorities with a guiding vision and a defined specification to plan for
the future. Each new project is done in isolation without regard for future
growth or compatibility.

Neoliberalism strikes again…

On Fri., 17 May 2019, 11:23 Matthew Geier, matthew@...>
wrote:

> On 17/5/19 10:39 am, Greg King wrote:

>

> Hardly the first! They love their spin but so glad to see this happening.

> Are they going back to CAF Urbos cars for this line?

>

>

> The consortium of which CAF is the vehicle 'partner' won the bid. TfNSW

> didn't chose the rolling stock - they chose a Build/Operate consortium.

> Vehicle type/vendor is a detail for the consortium.

>

>

> If so, would it not make sense to use the IWLR cars for this and

> standardise on the Citadis for the city lines? Wonder why they are not

> using the Citadis for all the lines??

>

>

> Because TfNSW have a policy of leaving things like rolling stock and even

> infrastructure up to the 'partner' in the bid. Apparently they don't want

> to stop the 'market' from offering 'innovative' bids.

>

> Just count our selves lucky they didn't select a bid containing CRRC's

> guided electric bus as the vehicle of choice!.

>

> NSW won't support local industry either - our city route buses are now

> made in Malaysia and the local bus factory recently closed due to lack of

> work. I do wonder what our so called 'support economy' is supposed to

> support is there is no primary industry.... I guess all those sheet metal

> workers and mechanics now on the dole are not a state cost.

>

>

>

> --

> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

> "TramsDownUnder" group.

> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

> email totramsdownunder+unsubscribe@....

> To post to this group, send email totramsdownunder@....

> To view this discussion on the web visit

> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tramsdownunder/51491183-f1b2-ae85-d0a8-48e9f654d844%40sleeper.apana.org.au

> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tramsdownunder/51491183-f1b2-ae85-d0a8-48e9f654d844%40sleeper.apana.org.au?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer

> .

> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

>