But PAF, your ostensibly sensible logic has lead precisely to where the project got.
Your whole argument is based on the validity of the assumption that, with just a little more money – only another $150 million or so – and just a little more time – only another 2 years or so - they’d have got there.
Would they?
What would you advocate if, in a year’s time, having spent another $125 million (sunk costs well in excess of $1.2billion), the news is that they just need another $75 million and 18 months? You decide, as a consequence of all those ‘sunk costs’, to commit another $75 million and wait another 18 months. And a year later, lo and behold, surprise surprise, the news is that they just need another $50 million and another year to get there.
As the sunk costs increase, so you must continue to spend money and wait.
How long and how much, PAF?
If you give me a price or a date, you’ve merely done what the new government has done. If you don’t provide a price or a date, I commend to you a career as a DMO project manager.
Dick:
(1) No one is responsible. That’s why these messes happen.
(2) A journalist’s job is to produce cheap pap for daily consumption by unsophisticated punters. Any detailed analysis of the cause of these messes, and any resulting story, is far too expensive and far too complicated.