On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:44:17 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
>On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:36:00 GMT, jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley)
>wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Who said it was economically viable?
Well you assume as it was government subsidised that it was
economically viable - if it wasn't then the government absolutely
should not have been subsidising it, and therefore we shouldn't be
moaning that it took years, but that it happened at all.
Jim. |