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Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway
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The British seem to be particularly bad at big infrastructure projects. The computerisation of the NHS was a debacle, for instance. HS2 has fallen massively short. The people in charge don't understand technology and are not good at taking advice.
I'm not sure if it's a big reason, but one thing I noticed when living in the UK is that it seemed to be much easier for local landowners to block things from being built compared to other countries I've lived in.
I feel like the Thames path through London was kind of representative of that. I feel like anywhere else it would be a normal walking path along the river, but instead it has big gaps, sections that are private, or even some which are closed certain days.
Just the fact that they wanted to make HS2 go UNDERGROUND through large parts of the countryside was a wild idea.
The people in charge are very good at taking advice. Advice on how to make money off of the tax payer.
The people in charge of HS2 were the drinking buddies of Tory MPs. It was always rotten.