Metronet and TubeLines attacked in LUL's report

Metronet and TubeLines received a damning end of term report last week for their performance on London Underground's Public Private Partnership (PPP), with the performance of Metronet, a consortium that includes Atkins and Balfour Beatty, singled out for particular criticism.
London Underground's second annual PPP report concedes some improvement in the Tube's assets, but Tim O'Toole, managing director of London Underground (LU), said progress was poor.
"This report shows just two years into the PPP contracts, many renewal projects, particularly Metronet's station modernisation programme, are already behind schedule. We're paying a premium for improvements, but performance is so far not good enough."
TubeLines gets less of a ticking off, showing improved progress on track renewals, seven out of nine station refurbishments delivered on time and "tangible" progress on the Jubilee and Northern line upgrades. But it gets a slap on the wrist for poor performance on the Northern Line with delays 74% higher than promised in its bid.
Both Metronet and TubeLines performed poorly on engineering overruns which increased overall from 148 in the first year to 200 in the second year. Their track renewal performance also came under fire with only 42.3km of track replaced, rather than the promised 61km. However, the report points out that this shortfall is largely down to Metronet.
In a bid to improve performance O'Toole has wrested agreements from both consortia to increase spending levels on maintenance substantially in the next year.