The way I read it, nuneatonmark just wants to see progress. Something I mentioned on a few years ago. But lets be fair, as posted by the sensible "work-traveller" most of the measures he put are NON EXISTENT which just adds fuel to nuneatonmark's comments.
A school kid can't say after 2 years of school that he is still working on home work of the first day of school, the teacher expects results the next day.
A store manager will not wait 2 years to see stocks on shelves
My job relies on results being given in real time. In some instances I get in trouble for doing something 30 minutes late.
Yet in the construction area of business everything takes time. And for some folks its a hard adjustment to make.
Lets put it this way, the internet is world wide. We DO see progress in other countries at a much faster rate than we see in the UK. We do see technological leaps of machinery that can put a bridge in place in 24 hours. We see trains that can self replace railway on the fly. Yet we don't see it in the UK. Another thing that baffles me is why all the aforementioned measures cannot be tackled at the same time. Why can't 2 or 3 level crossings be fixed now? Why can't some of the mothballed section be relaid now?
I am not not an expert, I have my curiosities and this is a forum. A forum is where you go to find out answers and whilst the answers often come they come with a tint of justification of what is happening in the real world. Without actually telling us what the workman are doing now, without telling us what all these people in the project are getting paid for now! For example, the project lead of EWR, what is he doing right now? He is obviously getting paid hansom amounts of money, but to me it just seems like people sitting idle.
The MML project was one where I didn't see progress with my own eyes for the best part of 3 years, but its here now and I can see it. Thats why I post pictures of it so I can convince myself in the middle of the night that I'm not dreaming. What I will say to Nuneatonmark is this, it will come. Just be patient.