London: CrossRail Finally Being Built?

Old Feb 15th, 2013, 09:19 AM
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>>Why is the UK about the only major country in Europe without a true high-speed rail network?
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Old Feb 15th, 2013, 10:30 AM
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"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?
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Old Feb 15th, 2013, 01:35 PM
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About as crazy as the Japanese who have spent the last 10 years building more roads and rail to nowhere and stimulated zero growth.
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