HSTEd
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Perhaps in the BR era infrastructure was done on a rather..... extemporised basis, but we seem to have gone far too far the other way now.
Railway apparently has no capability to cost control or resist scope creep, and the overly contracted out nature of the railway means even small modifications cost enormous sums.
Honestly mass deployment of busways would be a good way to get non road dependant public transport to huge numbers of people at a fraction fo the cost of rail.
Even if you go for full blown South American style BRT.
Or even 3S cableways between a town and surrounding villages.
Railway apparently has no capability to cost control or resist scope creep, and the overly contracted out nature of the railway means even small modifications cost enormous sums.
Honestly mass deployment of busways would be a good way to get non road dependant public transport to huge numbers of people at a fraction fo the cost of rail.
Even if you go for full blown South American style BRT.
Or even 3S cableways between a town and surrounding villages.