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There is no agency charged with strategic planning in this country, so it seems. Polititions are evidently incapable of it and civil servants would find it too dangerous. So, it's left to chance and afterthought.

It's unusual for Paxo to be so ignorant.

“Instead of hunter gathering, maybe pastoral farming would be better?” It’s not been tried. What is your evidence for that? “Maybe stone and timber houses would be better than living in caves." There is no evidence for that. Timber rots and stones fall down. Caves are always there...

Is that something of a pre-conceived notion? Since the railway will only affect peeps half-a-mile each side, I'd expect the more moderate to re-coil from the overly vociferous.

Eurostar getting dust in the cooling fans.:)

I wasn't aware of any tectonic shift towards Europe. Have you detected some?

Doesn't the same need to be done at Colwich Junction to gain the full benefit of non-conflicting paths?

No. It was, "Fog in the Channel. Continent cut off." Europe was a Coal and Steel Community then.

Re: the Seven Barrage idea. There have been many proposals but they never stack up economically (intra alia) because you need another station to generate in the slacks. Unless you want to run your trains only when the tide is running. :idea:

It used to be, if unsure, form a committee. Now it's, call for a report. Can't make a bas decision there! Mind you, operational and functional reviews are a good idea, done occasionally. Otherwise peeps are prone to do the same old thing for fifty years and more, whether their service is...

Don't work for me. Frozen. :cry:

I print out a street map from Streetmap.

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Ah, so that's why the HS2 - HS1 link has been eliminated. Bit of a chink in Delors' plan then?

...and that's how man got to the moon.