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Re: Queen Opens High Speed Rail Link - 14 years after the French.... Posted on: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:36:00 GMT

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.

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