In the UK’s defence it doesn’t have the luxury of simply ordering change to happen.
China: Oh so your house stand in way of glorious five year plan for bullet train connection of country. Fuck you! You no have house anymore!
UK: I’m awfully sorry but would it be possible to draft plans for possibly building a new railway line made up fifteen year old technology to potentially maybe come fifteen miles close to your house? What’s that? Oh I do beg your pardon, no I don’t want to challenge this in the ECHR. I do apologise. Please allow me to buy you a cup of tea.
That being said, the UK sucks balls at planning and building and I don’t think this will now ever improve. We’ve hit peak UK about twenty years ago in that regard 🥹.
It’s the building part that is key. The UK wouldn’t have past the planning stage to get to the part where they build around NIMBYs. And yeah, the hey day of UK infrastructure has past us sadly. The last good thing we did was the Olympics. Ten years ago, in the South in the country.
It also doesn’t help if after getting planning permission to build a new railway you then cancel the project because the prime minister is supporting a dipshit.
In the UK’s defence it doesn’t have the luxury of simply ordering change to happen.
That being said, the UK sucks balls at planning and building and I don’t think this will now ever improve. We’ve hit peak UK about twenty years ago in that regard 🥹.
Isn’t China famous for building roads around the houses of people who refuse to move out of their houses?
Didn’t the UK government force the people on the Olympic site in Stratford to sell their houses dirt cheap?
It’s the building part that is key. The UK wouldn’t have past the planning stage to get to the part where they build around NIMBYs. And yeah, the hey day of UK infrastructure has past us sadly. The last good thing we did was the Olympics. Ten years ago, in the South in the country.
It also doesn’t help if after getting planning permission to build a new railway you then cancel the project because the prime minister is supporting a dipshit.