London tube PPP ends in public buyout

Public entity Transport for London has bought Bechtel and Amey, a Ferrovial subsidiary, out of Tube Lines – the private sector consortium tasked with upgrading London’s underground rail – for £310m. Mayor Boris Johnson is happy to be free ‘from the perverse pressures of the Byzantine PPP structure’.

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