London: CrossRail Finally Being Built?
#22
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 17,268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
"Its construction would be one thing to revive the moribund economical state "
Precisely. There's no justifiable case in terms of transport efficiency, financial prudence, impact on the environment or regional economic policy.
But let's increase public debt by £50 billion and get Spanish construction companies to hire Romanian navvies to concrete the countryside over, creating an extravagant railway toy that has the perverse effect of INCREASING travel times for most people in Britain and sucks money out of real improvements in our railway, road and airport infrastructure.
It's jobs, innit?
While we're at it, though: how's America's infrastructure coming on? Built any docks or railways lately? Or roads leading to West Coast ports?
Precisely. There's no justifiable case in terms of transport efficiency, financial prudence, impact on the environment or regional economic policy.
But let's increase public debt by £50 billion and get Spanish construction companies to hire Romanian navvies to concrete the countryside over, creating an extravagant railway toy that has the perverse effect of INCREASING travel times for most people in Britain and sucks money out of real improvements in our railway, road and airport infrastructure.
It's jobs, innit?
While we're at it, though: how's America's infrastructure coming on? Built any docks or railways lately? Or roads leading to West Coast ports?