And that's when parliament should step in and pass it as standalone infrastructure under its own bill.

Yeah but don’t forget all the eminent domain shit that happened in the 70s and destroyed neighbourhoods left and right. The power structure set up to make sure that doesn’t happen again are now impeding important progress.

Thanks I'm going to have to look this up. Sounds interesting.

They don't object to London subsidising their "rural" lifestyle and paying their pensions though. I despise these people.