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Old January 4th 14, 08:37 AM
Robin9 Robin9 is offline
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Originally Posted by Arthur Figgis View Post

It doesn't help that much of the official position seems to come from
engineering types
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK
"Engineering types" have blown their credibility with the general public.

On so many big infrastructure projects, over so long a period of time,
"engineering types" have got it so ludicrously wrong in so many ways: the cost
of The British Library, the capacity of the M25, the time required to build aircaft
carriers, the cost of nuclear power . . . .