The asset inflation may have made us all rich on paper, but it's of little practical value. I've just had my home revalued for a re-mortgage and it's apparently worth 140% of what I paid for it 9 yea… (View Post)
I don't think there is that much route mileage at the scale of Oldbury - IIRC it's about a mile long over a chunk of city. This was expensive to build, so they tended to only do it to hop over urban … (View Post)
Its not lunacy. A lot of CE marks are buearcratic and hard to obtain, whilst also often failing to achieve what is intended. This is particularly true if you ever have to implement one in France, but… (View Post)
This is actually a huge Brexit win which the remainers were trying to spin as some sort of disaster. Its a bit rough on those owning truckers cafes in Holyhead, but the country was getting very littl… (View Post)
On the basis that most of the tram users are commuting 5 days a week, that's about 13-15% of the population. Hardly anything to write home about for a city centre system. The thing is that public tra… (View Post)