On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 10:37:10 +0100
Robin9 wrote:
"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 . . . .

You're being rather unfair - its not engineers who do costings , its
accountants. And they'll always underestimate the cost of any government
project due to political pressure. Whatever the current cost of HS2 is
quoted as , you can guarantee the true cost will be double even taking
inflation into account.

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Spud