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Article Summary: Why we can't have nice infrastructure any more. :(

• bryanlarsen 11mo ago
  I expected that to be the conclusion, but it's not. They could spend £250m on the bridge, but they're not. And it appears to be the right answer since it wouldn't provide anywhere near £250m worth of utility. They'd spend £250m to make things worse -- right now it's an awesome cyclist/pedestrian bridge, and after spending £250m it'd be much worse for that.
  • jandrese 11mo ago
    That's the takeaway I had as well. Spending a quarter of a billion pounds to get more cars into a traffic choked downtown is a bad investment. Spending that money on improving public transit options would improve the quality of life far more.
    • justincormack 11mo ago
      Barnes is not really “downtown” it has a rural village feel.
    • fragmede 11mo ago
      to me, the argument that we can't just print more money and do both because of a fear of inflation falls flat. We can't have nice things because it might be nice?