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While it is pretty cool, Crossrail and HS2 piss me off to no end as despite being an project that only affects england, the entire UK foots the bill. Wales, Nor
by dvdcxn 11y ago
While it is pretty cool, Crossrail and HS2 piss me off to no end as despite being an project that only affects england, the entire UK foots the bill. Wales, Northern Ireland and Scottish taxpayers foot the bill, under the pretense that this affects the entire UK, that it is a project that benefits the whole country.
And that's half right, most cities untouched by these projects have been predicted to lose out economically, as the south east beast grows ever more engrossing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24589652 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24589652
- growse 11y agoSo you're saying infrastructure projects which definitively cannot benefit everywhere equally should never be funded by central taxation?
- jamescun 11y agoThey are probably referring more to infrastructure projects being disproportionately focused on the south east, rather than only executing infrastructure project with macro economic effects.
- growse 11y agoCrossrail, I can understand - it overtly benefits London alone. However, given that one of HS2's main objectives is to free up freight capacity on the WCML which benefits most places from London up through to the North West and beyond, I'm struggling to see parent post's perspective.