Re: Queen Opens High Speed Rail Link - 14 years after the French....

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Re: Queen Opens High Speed Rail Link - 14 years after the French....

Posted on: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:53:00 GMT

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:06:15 +0100, Martin wrote:

>On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:14:51 GMT, jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley) wrote:
>>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.

Sure, and you would hope they got fair value when it was privatised -
unfortunately I don't think they did, but at the same time one bad
decision doesn't mean we should applaud another.

Jim

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