Need Another Example of Government Ineptitude?
Er, Which Connection Was That Supposed to Be?
In today's UK "Daily Telegraph", another example (as if we need one!) of government bungling and wasting of taxpayer's money ("Prescott's GBP 50m Travel Site a Waste of Time") .
"The Department for Transport is warning travellers not to place too much faith in its £50 million internet journey-planner project because it may be unreliable."
This was supposed to be a website to encourage people to use public transport by making it easy to access information and plan journeys. However...
"But problems with the scope of the scheme, data-gathering and software design have caused a series of delays characteristic of public sector information technology projects."
In contrast to the bungling of the "Men from the Ministry" (those same helpful people who only the other day were going to tell us all how to raise children successfully!), there was already a private sector service available, "Xephos", set up by Mr Peter White.
"His site cost under £1 million to set up, 50 times less than Transport Direct.
"For all the money they have spent, you would have thought they could come up with a better product," Mr White said."
Well, actually, no I wouldn't have expected anything else but the sort of fiasco that has happened.
Another sad and sorry tale of governement ineptitude and waste. Will anyone bear the consequences of this? Of course not! Let's see what's happened to the person responsible for this masterstroke.
"The project was initiated in 2000 by the former transport secretary John Prescott, who is now the Deputy Prime Minister."
In today's UK "Daily Telegraph", another example (as if we need one!) of government bungling and wasting of taxpayer's money ("Prescott's GBP 50m Travel Site a Waste of Time") .
"The Department for Transport is warning travellers not to place too much faith in its £50 million internet journey-planner project because it may be unreliable."
This was supposed to be a website to encourage people to use public transport by making it easy to access information and plan journeys. However...
"But problems with the scope of the scheme, data-gathering and software design have caused a series of delays characteristic of public sector information technology projects."
In contrast to the bungling of the "Men from the Ministry" (those same helpful people who only the other day were going to tell us all how to raise children successfully!), there was already a private sector service available, "Xephos", set up by Mr Peter White.
"His site cost under £1 million to set up, 50 times less than Transport Direct.
"For all the money they have spent, you would have thought they could come up with a better product," Mr White said."
Well, actually, no I wouldn't have expected anything else but the sort of fiasco that has happened.
Another sad and sorry tale of governement ineptitude and waste. Will anyone bear the consequences of this? Of course not! Let's see what's happened to the person responsible for this masterstroke.
"The project was initiated in 2000 by the former transport secretary John Prescott, who is now the Deputy Prime Minister."
posted by Kevin Francis at
4:19 pm
