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$34Bn to join London to Glasgow - via Birmingham and Manchester. 2:16 travel time rather than 4:48 as it is at the moment. I wonder if it will actually get made...
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Now there's irony for you.
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It is, of course, not as simple as you might think.
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Date: 2009-08-26 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-26 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-26 02:32 pm (UTC)Once we divide people up into groups X and Y anything that threatens to blur the lines gets treated as a threat rather than just part of the wonderful strangeness that surrounds us.
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Date: 2009-08-26 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-26 09:02 pm (UTC)Almost certainly not. At least, not in a timespan that is relevant. Even if you take £34bn as the actual cost, rather than a finger-in-the-air, we-might-get-it-within-an-order-of-magnitude-of-this initial guess ... that's £34bn the Treasury doesn't have and probably won't for a decade or more. And even if the Government of the day was keen as mustard, and not likely to be hammered at an election in less than a year, the planning will be a nightmare of nimbyism - it's going to have to run through almost all the heavily populated parts of the country apart from Nottingham and Leeds/Bradford.
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Date: 2009-08-27 12:14 am (UTC)