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It's hard to find any European country that didn't have any government projects that went wildly over budget or were very much delayed. So I don't think this is
by misja111 2y ago
It's hard to find any European country that didn't have any government projects that went wildly over budget or were very much delayed.
So I don't think this is a UK specific problem, and it doesn't explain why Britain has stagnated compared to most of the EU.
- tommy5dollar 2y agoTransport projects seem to be particularly expensive these days in Anglo countries compared to European countries. For instance, we currently have a planned short tunnel in the UK (under the Thames but not in London itself) where the actual planning process has so far cost $400m.
- inglor_cz 2y agoStronger property rights tend to backfire in the 2020s as NIMBYs have emerged everywhere and do their best to block anything around them, usually by weaponizing environmental laws. The remedy will probably consist of a combination of legal changes and a change in attitude; YIMBY must become a thing. People respond to social pressures.
- ninalanyon 2y ago> Stronger property rights Does the UK have stronger property rights than, for instance, Norway that was mentioned by another contributor here as being so much more efficient? Yet Norway has abandoned, for now at least, the south western half of the Oslo to Drammen E18 road upgrade because buying out the owners of expensive houses on the route would be too expensive. Are you claiming that other comparable democracies have such weak property rights that this significantly affects infrastructure projects? Which ones?