Lot of apples to oranges comparison here, particularly because of the introduction of TPWS which makes it much more difficult for drivers to SPAD significantly. That's not really anything to do with … (View Post)

Changing the planning category of golf courses to development land, meaning that you could suddenly build on them, but also can't easily build more on greenfield sites would be one of the earliest te… (View Post)

Bit strong to argue that the procurement processess of either the DFT or the operators were any good. The last batch of people to understand how to order trains on mass was BR in the 80s. Generally t… (View Post)

Also the result of us not having most of the network flattened by war, and rebuilt to much more modern standards in the 1950s. (View Post)

Sorry, but that's nonsense, and you know it. Fuel duty is a tax for using the roads, which contributes considerably more than the cost of the road network. The fact that this mostly gets spaffed up t… (View Post)