..Boltar" wrote in message
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Dave Arquati wrote:
If, in the 1980s, someone had asked for £1.5bn to build a 40km light
railway network throughout the derelict docklands of East London, they
would have been laughed out of the Treasury - but by 2012, that will be
the investment in and scale of the DLR.

I think that says it all really. If they'd built more originally it
would have probably cost somewhat less in real terms.

But even in countries that are pro rail such schemes are
developed piecemeal, it's the way that finance works.


tim