In message , at 03:54:34 on Tue, 14 Nov 2017,
Recliner remarked:
That's going to make Edinburgh Council look like a paragon of
financial prudence. Especially as it'll be "Britain’s first new
underground railway in decades", so there are no workers available with
recent experience of tunnelling in, say, London.

Huh? Crossrail, HS2 and the Northern line extension all have significant
London tunnels.

Is this national "fail to spot sarcasm day", or what?

For you, vigorously participating in usenet threads is a full-time
occupation, as a substitute for the paid work which you'd much rather be
doing.

I telecommute around the world (of which uk.r is only a small outpost),
chewing up the environment by flying only when strictly necessary. These
days I rarely leave the UK.

Haven't worked in a full-time job for 15yrs now, but have been active
online for 30yrs, much of that time in environments where online
participation was part of the brief.

But I readily agree that usenet is more of a displacement activity than
anything else these days.

For most of the rest of us, uk.r is something we dip into in idle
moments, and we don't carefully analyse every post for sarcasm.

I'm not sure how much care is required to spot the sarcasm in: "there
are no workers available with recent experience of tunnelling in, say,
London."
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Roland Perry