..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

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

Not always. Look at the TGV system in france. It was a large scale
project from the start, not some penny pinching piecemeal attempt of
building a few miles of fast track to start off with then leaving it
for a decade and have endless "reviews" from quangos which is what any
British government would have probably done.

B2003