Cap1 wrote: » It's bad news I'm afraid. It's been pushed back until next week. Everything is ready to go on the bridge. It's the movement of the temporary works causing the problem. sorry about the bad information.
Cap1 wrote: » on the upside I don't have to work on Thursday night.
delahuntv wrote: » there have been surprisingly few problems and even when there were issues they seem to have been ironed out quickly.
KCAccidental wrote: worst insider ever. 
Cap1 wrote: » Yes from the same man. i can only go on what I've been told.I'm working on the site and will be involved in the change over. There's is a meeting on the site today so it will be 100% confirmed by the end of the working day. From a conversation on Friday and this morning it's going ahead.
Cap1 wrote: » Everything has been arranged for it to to be changed over on Thursday night Friday morning.
delahuntv wrote: » Initial estimate did allow for inclement weather - as it should do, because people like yourself would then just complain that it was "not planned" properly. Now that the works are all but complete, the SAFETY sign off has to be completed - whilst you may like to think its as simple as walking the road unfortunately its not. Would you rather it open for you to save a total of less than 2 hours over a few days and without mandatory safety checks, or would you prefer a full and rigorous safety check done on it. ?? And until the safety check is done, they cannot give a definite opening day, just in case something is noticed that would delay it a day or so - if they did, sure it would just give some people something else to whine about.
Deedsie wrote: » I don't agree, I am not going to applaud someone for completing something "ahead" of schedule when the initial schedule was over estimated in the first place. Id rather a little transparency and an ambitious schedule from the get go. I am delighted they are going to be finished ahead of schedule and I think they have done a great job. I just think they could have managed their time a bit better in the last number of weeks and communicated better with the public. We are the ones paying for this and being inconvenienced when there are delays yet all we get is the bare minimum of information from the company.
Victor wrote: » Ambitious schedules mean either more money or poorer quality (on various measures). A basic principle of almost any commercial activity is that time, quality and cost are a balancing act, but this is especially important in construction.
Deedsie wrote: » I built a lego castle around 1993... Great success
Deedsie wrote: » Id rather a little transparency and an ambitious schedule from the get go.
Tragedy wrote: » Deedsie just out of curiousity, what's the largest construction project you've been involved in tendering, planning or managing?
delahuntv wrote: » instead of searching for negatives - could you not say "isn't it great they look like opening 2 months ahead of schedule" But sure don't we always want to find fault on even the most positive things?
Deedsie wrote: » It is annoying that they didn't push through this weekend and just open the flyover section. The majority of people would have been happy with the disruption over the weekend if they could have just had it opened for Monday morning traffic. Now that its so close the longer they leave it without opening it the more frustrated people will get. Just get on with it and open it up.
