What you say makes rational sense, and yet when I walk down Bishopsgate or come out of the Canary Wharf station this is not the perception that I have. What I s

What you say makes rational sense, and yet when I walk down Bishopsgate or come out of the Canary Wharf station this is not the perception that I have. What I see is an explosion of activity and districts that are coming apart at the seems. For me the big disaster for the City this year was the announcement that Crossrail 1 won't open for a year and the delays around Crossrail 2 and HS2 (although I think that HS2 is not the best way of spending the bag full of billions that it will cost).