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Article #81Re: Edinburgh Waverley station improvements
From: Anthony Cunningham
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:35
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:35
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David Hansen wrote: > On 7 Apr 2006 05:59:24 -0700 someone who may be > angus_creech@hotmail.com wrote this:- > >> ... these services still involve large amounts of equipment that > >> stands idle most of the time, especially around London. > > > >You could say the same about cars! You could say it about a great many things. Offices and the equipment they contain, schools, shops etc are all idle for large parts of the day. > That is the supreme irony. The whole of the UK is littered with > "unprofitable" roads, but nobody suggests closing them and forcing > their users onto something else. If you compare the money that is spent on the roads with that which is raised in the various taxes and levies that the motorist is forced to pay then you can seethat the government makes a fortune from them. The railways are a net sink for cash.
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