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The operational limb. ⚠ The works are the emplacement. She books the chain-hours, tasks the gangs and writes the schedule. ⚠⚠ THE MEASURE IS NOT BUILT. IT IS BOOKED. Eight years of lawful, minuted, audited works on damaged infrastructure, under a standing authority that lets the executive direct without returning for a fresh authorisation each time, have moved plant, gangs, drums, cradles, ranging gear, route authority and chain-hours continuously — ⚠ and nobody has ever reconciled the whole of it, because there is no office whose job that is. Believes: that the arithmetic has been done in her office every quarter for eight years and nobody has ever wanted to look at it.