Gridlock Nation

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I was considering summarising points where I think you are wrong and Kwarteng and Dupont are right, but I think because of the extent of your poor views it’s more appropriate to generalise. Although not explicitly stated, this is the tired old canard that railways are ‘subsidised’, while we ‘invest’ in our roads. If you make it easier to transport wine, you also makes it easier and cheaper to transport mineral water from Evian. Armed with a double first, he then proceeded to Harvard for a year, before completing a PhD back at Cambridge. Would these undeniable improvements to our urban areas have happened if private corporations were in control of our road network?

When Kwarteng and Dupont have their feet back on planet Earth, they are firmly convinced of the needs for more roads. The most that can be said for self-driven cars is that they would eliminate the kind of tailgating-induced traffic jams that are currently prevalent on our motorways -congestion, of course, would still exist. Because Gridlock Nation is a decidedly silly book – certainly for someone of Kwarteng’s apparent intelligence. Transport is usually only a minority contribution to the energy cost of producing any particular good.James Madison bequeathed us a political system designed not to work, a government of sharply limited powers.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Today, the future seems to belong to China with its ever growing High Speed Rail networks or Dubai and its titanic new five runway airport.I in­ter­viewed the whores and went wad­ing in­to the Beetham, in­to hos­pices where there was no mor­phine, and stood amongst boys who were liv­ing and some dead by the gun. Sources often appear to be the unsupported opinions of other people with the same views; a sort of circular flow of waffle.