This latest failing project will make HS2 look like a triumph

i News - News that the Lower Thames Crossing has been allocated an additional ?170m by the Government, just months after the Chancellor described the previous expansion of the project?s budget as ?the final tranche of government support?, is grim. But it?s no surprise to anyone acquainted with the British state?s dire record of out-of-control budgets and timetables for infrastructure projects.