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Originally Posted by Chris
The people of this great northern city duly doff their caps and gasp at the latest technological marvel to be unveiled in our great capital. I’m truly chuffed that Londoners can now traverse their city 10 minutes quicker, or get to Canary Wharf without changing at Mornington Crescent.
It’s just a pity it went a teensy wee say bit over-budget isn’t it. I’m pretty sure we could have replaced every single ferry serving the Western Isles twice over with that money.
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It's an unfortunate fact about large transport infrastructure that it tends to be over budget and over time. Not inevitable but Berlin Airport (9 year-delay), Edinburgh trams and HS2 suggest it's more common than not.
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Originally Posted by Damien
Then make the politicians accountable for it. What happened to the Northern Powerhouse? Why is HS2 being scaled back?
There is too much pandering to NIMBYs in this country and not enough ambition.
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We would all be enjoying cheaper energy bills except that our recent governments have pandered to NIMBYs and effectively banned onshore wind power, the cheapest form of electricity.
Northern Powerhouse has been defunded by the government; presumably because there's insufficient votes for them in it.