02-13-2020, 02:59 PM
Sceptical though I am that even the extended timescales and ever-inflating costs won't both be over-run, I think we've painted ourselves into this particular corner through decades of under-investment and - probably more importantly - lack of a strategic vision for anything outside of the M25. On that basis it probably has to go ahead; both phases.
It still feels piecemeal to me, albeit a substantial piece; but it's probably either this or more decades of muddling through. I can't shake the concern that it will somehow end up as much more of a conduit into London than it ever is in the other direction.
It still feels piecemeal to me, albeit a substantial piece; but it's probably either this or more decades of muddling through. I can't shake the concern that it will somehow end up as much more of a conduit into London than it ever is in the other direction.