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Yes doing things at scale does cost lots of money. That often why doing the “obvious” is the wrong approach. When you’re operating at that kind of scale, small
by avianlyric 1y ago
Yes doing things at scale does cost lots of money. That often why doing the “obvious” is the wrong approach. When you’re operating at that kind of scale, small savings are still substantial, and scale often makes more innovative, less obvious solutions a better pick. Especially given the cost of exploring those options is so cheap compared to total cost of the project.
Also the underground is funded pretty much entirely by fares paid. Past UK governments have cut any tax payer subsidies for TfL to zero for day-to-day operational costs, and there’s zero indication that’s going to change any time soon.
- MichaelZuo 1y agoHow is that relevant to my comment? I didn’t claim all technically possible solutions would be politically acceptable.
- avianlyric 1y agoI’m pointing out how shallow and unhelpful your comment is. I provided an analysis as to why a seemingly obvious solution has serious problems, you made an unhelpful comment that seems to suggest that commenting on the cost of a project means I’m confused about the political acceptability of a project, rather than the fact I’m trying to demonstrate why the obvious solution might have some problems. Which has nothing to political acceptability, but is simply a comment on the poor value-for-money that specific solution represents.
- MichaelZuo 1y agoAre you even replying to the actual comment?