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Post by malcolmffc on May 30, 2016 7:58:32 GMT
What on earth is going on at Vauxhall? The new lift was supposed to be in service from January. Still not open in May and now the step-free "blob" has been removed from the tube map!
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Post by rsdworker on May 30, 2016 12:22:10 GMT
o believe its still working behind hoarding
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Post by dmncf on Jun 1, 2016 11:04:39 GMT
Anyone want to place bets on whether TfL's website or press releases, before or upon completion of the step free access project, will give acknowledgement that the project is behind schedule? ;-)
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Post by snoggle on Jul 1, 2016 23:26:16 GMT
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.
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Post by dmncf on Jul 4, 2016 13:40:23 GMT
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Post by malcolmffc on Jul 6, 2016 6:34:05 GMT
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?!
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Post by snoggle on Jul 6, 2016 8:22:13 GMT
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?! Well there will no doubt be a "commercial discussion" about the delay and liability for costs. I suspect it's more than tiling. Reads to me that the actual construction of the revised adit to give access to the lift shaft is wrong or poorly done. Quite how we got this far without poor construction being spotted is anyone's guess.
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Post by Jerome H on Jul 6, 2016 13:52:29 GMT
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?! Well there will no doubt be a "commercial discussion" about the delay and liability for costs. I suspect it's more than tiling. Reads to me that the actual construction of the revised adit to give access to the lift shaft is wrong or poorly done. Quite how we got this far without poor construction being spotted is anyone's guess. 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.
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Post by malcolmffc on Sept 1, 2016 12:23:07 GMT
Well, it's now September (past what would be considered "late summer") and the lift is still not open, and the finishes are still bare on the northbound platform. What on earth is going on?
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Post by norbitonflyer on Sept 1, 2016 15:21:48 GMT
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)
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Post by gantshill on Oct 17, 2016 8:13:17 GMT
I travelled through Vauxhall this moring, and a corridor from the top of the escalators to the lift was open. the lift appeared to be working, although I didn't try it.
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Post by snoggle on Oct 19, 2016 18:47:27 GMT
The lift would indeed appear to be operative (not my tweet).
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Post by crusty54 on Oct 21, 2016 16:31:12 GMT
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Post by gantshill on Oct 21, 2016 18:00:26 GMT
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.
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Post by rsdworker on Oct 24, 2016 1:25:59 GMT
also i noticed a disabled evacuation signs so i believe there is evacuation lift - so the emergency staircase around the lift shaft could be extra escape stair as i think entrance to it is on left side of lift on upper landing
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