This is not completely different, it's the same as it ever was. It's taken 16 years and 1.2 billion to get planning permission to build a new bridge over the Thames. They reckon it's going to cost 9 billion and will open in 2032 EDIT my ROFL smilies are missing EDIT they are still missing, big brother won't show my emoji things https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crewy5472gxo
Pah, Hammersmith Bridge was built in 1887 at a cost of £15million in today's money, it shut to traffic over five years ago and is still shut. The current budget (as if that won't go way over budget) for repairs is £250million. Way to go. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
The sooner the world collapses in on itself the better. Every developed country is effectively bust with expenditure far exceeding income, the third world countries would like to develop but can't so their people all want to move to an already developed place which makes the problem even worse. The amount of stuff we are taking out of the ground (last year 100 billion gallons of fuel for air travel alone l) one day it's going to implode like an empty egg.
I used to use it a lot and it's a lovely looking bridge, but it never seemed very practical, it's really narrow and it clearly wasn't built for modern traffic (and the IRA bombing it three times hasn't helped).
In related news there is a tunnel currently being built between Germany and Denmark, 11 miles, will have a motorway and two railway lines in it. Expected to cost about £6 billion.
Expect it to actually open in the 2030's, almost 25 years after it was announced and at two to three times the original cost (it's up to €10b already).
Bit argumentative today. Expected to be completed in 2029. When first official moves to build a bridge in 2007 estimated cost was 5 billion euro now it's expected to be somewhere near to 7.5 billion and a tunnel. Delays have been due to trying to get two countries to work together, keeping the environmentalists happy, a battle with the eu over alleged illegal state funding among other usual stuff. Work finally started in 2021. However anyone wishes to look at it they have run rings around our major infrastructure projects.
