| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Now the Xrail chickens really come home to roost | |
| Posted by: | George Knox | |
| Date/Time: | 30/10/09 11:10:00 |
Eric Take the City away and our economy will take decades to recover and the country will become a much poorer in the wealth ranking lists. Loathsome as some of our financiers may be – we need them more than we don’t. They for instance mean you have a pension, and if you were a teacher - quite a nice one. The number of hedge fund managers etc will always be outnumbered by all the other people who travel far to work. With growing population we have to have yet another new line to relieve overcrowding on the underground. King’s Cross and Oxford Circus platforms and those of some other stations are scary sometimes during rush hours. 10 years ago they were manageable. Hard working people will reach their offices quickly and spend more hours adding to the GDP rather than reading the Metro on the ceiling of the train while they struggle to work on long journeys. Hard working people will be more mobile about where they work. Asking if Ealing will benefit is not the correct question. The whole of London including Ealing will benefit and so will parts of South East England. Did the canal engineers foresee that Birmingham would become one of our largest cities? Did Germany before the war succumb to the argument that it was too poor to build the first motorways in the world? We cannot be specific about the value. That is beyond the wit of man. We have to have faith in vision which is partly what enterprise is about. Oil will run down but governments will use their remaining energy sources to get people to work as a first priority. We have coal the sea and nuclear power - and necessity working on some mother of new transport invention. Sadly Ealing has not introduced planning vision which requires zero energy waste in new buildings. Yes Chris it will be expensive and yes, when did any major project not have cost overruns? We are all paying for the Olympic Games and probably still for the Channel Tunnel? Greenford is the lesser priority. |