£9.4 Billion spent on Rail Infrastructure
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£9.4 Billion spent on Rail InfrastructureToday the Coalition has announced £9.4 billion on rail infrastructure including upgrading lines and electrification including the Midland MainLine and extending the GWML Electrification to Swansea.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18851907Last edited by Morgsie; 16-07-2012 at 19:25. -
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Re: £9.4 Billion spent on Rail InfrastructureJust a ploy to cover up the upset between the tories and lib dems over the House Of Lords.(Original post by Morgsie)
Today the Coalition has announced £.4 billion on rail infrastructure including upgrading lines and electrification including the Midland MainLine -
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Re: £9.4 Billion spent on Rail InfrastructureThere is that but that is another matter compared to today's announcement(Original post by blueray)
Just a ploy to cover up the upset between the tories and lib dems over the House Of Lords. -
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Re: £9.4 Billion spent on Rail InfrastructureNo it's very much linked in to this, as they want to stop concern's about the coalition split. That, and the fact that the Olympics is in 10 days time.(Original post by Morgsie)
There is that but that is another matter compared to today's announcement -
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Re: £9.4 Billion spent on Rail InfrastructureBrilliant, so aside from the 150 or so IEP's they're buying for the East Coast/Great Western Main Lines, they're going to need more electric trains to run on the Midland Main Line.
We're going to end up with a surplus of 125mph diesel trains when what we need is more local stock because commuters around Manchester are still trundling around on 1980s converted buses. -
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Re: £9.4 Billion spent on Rail InfrastructureYeh, funded by increasing rail fares at an even faster rate. What is there to shout about exactly?(Original post by Morgsie)
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Re: £9.4 Billion spent on Rail InfrastructureIts called implementing Plan B when the coalition is falling apart, no matter the cost to the economy apparently. This is fine governance right here, forget the deficit do anything to drag media attention away from Lords reform.(Original post by CandyFlipper)
I was under the impression we were in the middle of a debt crisis. I guess I was wrong.
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The british people dont fight enough, they just have this keep calm and carry on mentality. Pfft the people of britain are blind and dumbed down. Cameron does not do things in the interest of the british people, only for the rich, I hate the british government and the royal family has looted its riches from other countries and taxed the poor people for generations. Wake up or carry on bieng told what to di by snobs and bankers whi run the country.
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Re: £9.4 Billion spent on Rail InfrastructureThe infrastructure was privatised but nationalised again after Hatfield.(Original post by biggie)
If the rail network has truly been privatised, why are taxpayers, and not the private companies, paying for infrastructure? -
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Re: £9.4 Billion spent on Rail InfrastructureIt'll pay for itself in the long run. Electrification isn't going to make the trains faster; the point is to stop paying for diesel and instead run more efficient electric motors off the national grid which is a cheaper source of energy. So this is really just a boring efficiency measure that passengers will hardly notice, but will eventually benefit them.(Original post by creak)
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Re: £9.4 Billion spent on Rail InfrastructureThis project will be payed for via shafting passengers with increased ticket prices and then shafting your children via Network Rail borrowing (publicly owned).(Original post by CandyFlipper)
I was under the impression we were in the middle of a debt crisis. I guess I was wrong.
It is better in the long run but it is still bloody debt based economics.
