On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 01:13:01 +0000, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>Hatunen wrote:
>
>[]
>> But I would still think the British had a considerably more
>> difficult job of decision making than the French, who already had
>> track for their TGV that could be used. Not to mention, of
>> course, that the UK does not have the same sort of authoritarian
>> government that the French do.
>
>I won't get into the idiot OP's points here, but there has certainly
>been criticism of the various UK governments lack of decision making on
>this.
But it's a lot of money and pretty needless disruption, to shave a few
minutes off of a journey frequented by a small minority of people -
I'm rather surprised it was at all economically viable.
Jim. |