On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:14:51 GMT, jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley) wrote:
>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.
The government subsidised the airport infrastructure in UK before it was
privatised.
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Martin
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