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Originally Posted by Redlambs
That's plain stupid. So he raises money for the public transport by trying to force cars off the road? And what would happen if he succeeded, where's the money coming from next?
You do realise that you can't just refurbish once, it's a forever ongoing situation? You can't keep dragging money from the working class with bollocks charges and raising council tax, then pretend it's benefiting them. You have to look at better, more self-sufficient ways. One of those ways is to change the structure.
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For the Tube at least you can bring down maintenance bills by replacing the entire signalling system for starters. The thing's decrepit, and is basically something cobbled together over decades. So you have one big capital investment and your maintenance bills fall for a fairly long period. That frees up money for other things. Same sort of principle applies to Heathrow, Crossrail, the DLR what have you.
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Originally Posted by Redlambs
Besides, the fact he is being voted out proves what the majority thinks, and right or wrong, Ken should have listened and stopped bullshitting. The man clearly has his own interests at heart more than anyone else's.
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Hey, I voted for Brian Paddick, and gave my second vote to Boris. I'm not going to fool myself into thinking he's going to be any different from Ken though.