Seems pointless to me
... probably 'cause I come from a time when folks walked to work. If they wanted to cut down on travel time, they got themselves a bicycle.
So does it boil down to this: If you want to develop the crumbling northern and midlands cities, you make it easier to get to London? Or am I just not getting the point?
33 billion pounds is a big chunk of coin. It would go a long way to helping create jobs in areas where there are large numbers of unemployed (by "unemployed" I mean those who are out of work, and would like nothing better than to get back to work. Not the shiftless who spend their lives avoiding work.) On one hand, your govt. seems to be cutting thousands of jobs ... in the military for example ... and on the other, promising to create thousands of jobs on a mega project that may, or probably may not have any lasting economic and social benefits.
As an aside: Talking of the military, has anyone noticed that in the Middle East, and parts of Africa, there is this immense swiftly rotating object, and a tsunami of fecal matter is heading straight for it. Maybe some of that 33 billion would be better spent making sure that the men and women of your armed forces are well-equipped to deal with your inevitable involvement. After all, whose going to have to help out the frogs when they screw up and start legging it
