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Cautious welcome for £50bn infrastructure plan

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The problem, as always with big, or any, infrastructure projects set out by the government at the time is that it takes so long to get things actually started that the next government usually shelves it for whatever reason, so it either doesn't happen or it has to go through the whole approval process again and then the lobbyists get on the band wagon with the NIMBYs and it all goes horribly wrong and never happens and the country ends up woefully behind the rest of Europe, etc, etc. Same old, same old!

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18 Jul 2012

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4:46 pm

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