gerjomarty
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I saw an interesting post on Slugger O'Toole today from Steve Bradley, regarding a potential plan for improvements to Northern Ireland's rail network.
https://sluggerotoole.com/2021/03/1...infrastructure-apartheid-part-2-the-solution/
I was interested in what the denizens of this forum thought of the plan detailed here.
Obviously some of the projects further down the priority list will almost certainly never happen, but to be honest, some of the projects at the top of the list probably won't either.
This quote also resonated with me with the current administration talking about billion pound vanity infrastructure projects across the Irish Sea.
https://sluggerotoole.com/2021/03/1...infrastructure-apartheid-part-2-the-solution/
[This] is the only part of the UK or Ireland that has not re-opened any mothballed railway lines this century, and the percentage of our infrastructure expenditure that is allocated to public transport is significantly lower than anywhere else in the UK. So whilst there is doubtless a case to be made for investment in certain road projects across NI, there is also no shortage of voices constantly demanding such expenditures – and particularly amongst our politicians. Meanwhile there are almost no high-profile figures continually championing the case for good quality public infrastructure that covers all of NI’s major towns, its airports and every one of its six counties. That would be the single greatest transformational investment that could be made to NI’s transport infrastructure, and it’s what is proposed here.
I was interested in what the denizens of this forum thought of the plan detailed here.
Obviously some of the projects further down the priority list will almost certainly never happen, but to be honest, some of the projects at the top of the list probably won't either.
This quote also resonated with me with the current administration talking about billion pound vanity infrastructure projects across the Irish Sea.
If the British Government is sincere about wanting to improve connectivity within and between the component parts of the UK, it could deliver transformative change and equality to our public transport network for less than a tenth of the cost of a bridge or tunnel to Scotland. Indeed – there simply must be no bridge or tunnel to Scotland without and until these improvements are delivered.