I now look forward to Sunak announcing that both northern legs of HS2 are going ahead, as well as the northern powerhouse rail. If you’re going to vacillate wildly from one position to another, why n… (View Post)

“Preferred” here means the economists definition of preferred. You lived in the SE because it meant you had a job. That, to you, was preferable to living elsewhere without a job. You preferred it to … (View Post)

IIRC phase 2B contains all the really expensive bits of the remaining northern part of HS2. So you might as well build the rest of the damn thing. Phase 1 of HS2 was ludicrously expensive because a) … (View Post)

I have a vague memory of reading an interview in a rail magazine where an entrepreneur from within the rail system was trying to create extra freight capacity. They stated that they could book out ev… (View Post)

The Ukranians seem to be taking an “f. you in particular” attitude to the black sea fleet. (View Post)