Good lord we actually have people like this in charge of our railways?
He says that money could be better spent on improving roads, or providing electrical charging points, which would just encourage car use, which is the least efficient, least economical form of transportation in urban areas.
He says that Manchester isn't big enough for such projects like Crossrail, yet points to Hamburg and Lyon as countries it should look to emulate..... seemingly unknowing that those cities have had significantly more post war rail investment than Manchester.
He says *nothing* of the lower Thames crossing being massively overbudget, the purpose of which could no doubt be better served by more no-car oriented projects.
He also seems to be under the impression that the London underground operates under capacity (HA!)
He also seems to be perfectly content to maintain car infrastructure, yet loathes the thought that rail infrastructure would ever need to be maintained, (even though it is maintained at a much lower rate and cost than the roads.)
The sooner we get people like this out of the way the better.
And this isn't even mentioning the fact that the country is growing at a fast rate, it is near enough impossible to make a bad investment in transport right now. And god forbid we build anything with a slight amount of redundancy.