• Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yeah but we need an alternative, toriss really fucked us on HS2, almost as bad as thatcher fucked HS1.

      I don’t think HSR would cover all the extra capacity but domestic mainland flights make up 5-8% of London flights which certainly weakens the case for a new runway.

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          10 hours ago

          Because we don’t live in tiny little villages anymore people want to get around and we should make sure they can do that without damaging the planet.

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          10 hours ago

          Thatcher insisted that it was privately financed, which doomed it to underperform.

          Major then majorly fucked it, by privitizing the railways (include the deadly decisions to privitize tracks), and Blair didn’t unfuck it, so plenty of blame to go around.