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Crossrail/Elizabeth Line was completed this year, with roughly a 3 year delay. Heathrow expansion has considerable opposition, the flight path overflies millio
by Symbiote 4y ago
Crossrail/Elizabeth Line was completed this year, with roughly a 3 year delay.
Heathrow expansion has considerable opposition, the flight path overflies millions of people.
High Speed 2 is under construction.
An additional nuclear power plant was approved last week.
Britain's problems for major infrastructure are the North/South divide and a general opposition to government investment, not environmentalism.
- rich_sasha 4y agoHS2 is many years delayed and billions (tens of?) over budget. And drastically cut down. Not sure I'd use it as a success story.
- bionade24 4y agoYou can call it failed or success after 10 years in operation. Before that, it's still an ongoing process. Infrastructure is for the long-term.
- danw1979 4y agoParts of HS2 (the northern bits) won’t ever be built. From where I’m sitting in York, it already looks like a failure.
- Symbiote 4y agoThat isn't a failure of the planning system, or from interference from environmentalists. It's a failure of government and the British democracy.
- lambdadmitry 4y agoIt's both. Look up council complaints and demands for the HS2, they're full of unreasonable NIMBY stuff like asking for the line to be put in a tunnel because it comes closer than 100m to an industrial estate. They didn't get it of course, but as a "compromise" they got high berms after a lengthy consultation/bargaining, both of which inflate the cost.