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Public Transport Expansion
Robin May wrote:
Paul Weaver wrote the following in: news Looking at the history of the tube, the vast majority of it was built between 1890 and the first world war. Obviously this was all entrepreneurs, capitalists that produced the finest public transport system of its day. There's also the point that the first tubes were built at a time when there was almost nothing. I saw a post earlier today where someone made the point that there was more railway building in the early years of the 20th century than in the past 50 years. What a silly thing to point out. 50 years ago there was already quite a large tube network whereas a hundred years ago there was practically nothing. Of course more was built then when there was nothing in existence. There's also the point that, having built the lines, the entrepreneurs, on the whole, failed to make money from them, and were eventually bailed out by nationalisation in the '30s. Presumably potential modern tube entrepreneurs know this, even if most people don't. Colin McKeznie |
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