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Originally Posted by spinoza
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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That doesn't answer my point. Plus, it just repeats what I've already said, as in where's the management for this kind of thing? It's NOT more money needed, it's better filtering of that money.