So the high speed London to Birmingham train will cost £32 billion. I presume that's return. It'll probably be cheaper to buy two singles. Still, I can't help thinking that David Cameron's new compromised route speaks volumes:
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Given the state of current finances, and the period necessary to pay off the bankster gambling debt already dumped on duped tax payers. Why is Dave so keen to take out another loan, by handing over a blank cheque? I say blank cheque, because there is no legally enforceable cap on the cost of this vanity venture. If, and experience suggests its inevitable, costs skyrocket, whoever is in power has two options.
1. Stop the project and write-off what has been wasted thus far (unlikely). Or
2. Pay whatever is demanded to finance a pre-doomed wager. That has no chance whatever of paying back its final costs let alone interest charges accrued.
Level and lay waste the land that gave me life, by all means Dave. But leave not try convince me,
that 2 + 2 = 3.
Answer me this question:
Have you ever paid to use a train?
If the answer is yes. Then you have no argument.
It's like all those who protest about airport expansion, yet still fly themselves.
Utter hypocritical cant. This railway link ought to have been built decades ago. The delay and the rush to private transport and far more destructive environmentallymotorway building is why it's now going to cost so much to buld the long-overdue high-speed rail link between England's two largest cities.
Beaching was a totally foolish and myopic disaster for what should have been a post-war reconstruction of a mixed transport infrastructure involving the total upgrade of all of Britain's Railways. Because the car won out, we are now faced with such problems as overcrowded streets, congestion charging and those architectuarally god-awfull multi-storey car-parks blighting our city-scapes.