HANSOM EPIC JOURNEYS

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The chairman of Hurley Palmer Flatt's owner HDR was in London earlier this week to meet the team. Eric Keen, who is also chief executive of the US engineer, flew in from California on Monday before heading home to the firm's HQ in Omaha, Nebraska, the following day. I think that's a good example of where the phrase "flying visit" comes from. Keen told my hack that he didn't feel any tremors from last weekend's earthquakes, which hit an area near Los Angeles. He was in northern California when they struck the state's southern half, leaving thousands of people without power. But his son lives in LA and he certainly felt the shocks. "He told me things were rocking and rolling," he laughs, shrugging off what no doubt would have taken us months to recover from in the UK... In the spring, the London Assembly published a report on what has caused Crossrail to be delayed, dramatically named "Derailed: Getting Crossrail back on track". Both Transport for London and London's mayor Sadiq Khan promised to respond to it by June. In keeping with the theme of the railway, they haven't.