More recently, the £214m refit project of the Royal Opera
House in Covent Carden resulted in a cancelled opening
performance, and the remaining shows being run at huge
technical risks associated with the operation of newly
installed but not properly tested and mastered backstage
equipment (Royal Opera House, 1999). The Jubilee line
extension project for the London Underground, for example,
has been characterised as having been "...a long saga of
overshot deadlines and overspent budgets" (Winder, 1999,
p. 8).