Showing posts with label infrastructure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infrastructure. Show all posts
Saturday, 28 December 2019

Boondoggle, Whitehall or devolution? How investment appraisal might make a Yorkshire Assembly the right choice.

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In one of its first significant acts, the new Conservative government has signalled its intention to reform the rules governing infrastru...
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Thursday, 21 November 2019

In which some architects discover some reasons people object to housing development

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 At a time of housing crisis, at least in some parts of the UK, it is amazing that groups of planners and architects can still find time ...
Tuesday, 24 July 2018

It's time to stop obsessing about trains - they aren't the infrastructure solution we need

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Let's imagine for a minute that I'm going to give you several billion pounds for the purpose of making the North of England's in...
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Saturday, 3 June 2017

Why nationalising the water industry is a bad idea....

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It will surprise people to learn that most the the USA's water infrastructure is publicly-owned and managed. And it's not just high ...
Sunday, 2 April 2017

Why existing infrastructure is more important than new infrastructure

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I like John Sanphillippo's perambulations around suburban USA. We spend too much time looking at big cities with their skyscrapers, tra...
Tuesday, 5 April 2016

'Growth for The North' - taking local ownership of the Northern Powerhouse

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At a recent LGA meeting we heard from Lord Adonis, chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission and former transport minister. It ...
Friday, 24 January 2014

Larry Summers embraces the New Fascism

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**** “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” Benito Mussolini There's been a deal of commen...
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Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Do you believe in Santa Claus? More on the case for HS2

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**** In the remake of Miracle on 34th Street (the slightly schmaltzier version of the classic movie) a wave of people across New York - i...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013

Writing elsewhere...on the waste of cash that is HS2

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**** Over at the Culture Vultures you can read me ripping into High Speed Two: Let’s put is more simply still – if the government put ...
Monday, 24 September 2012

Going anti-clockwise round Coventry - a paen to England's roads

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Today, for reasons that are unimportant to you, dear reader, we drove from the fine old town of Bath back to a very nearly drowned Cu...
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Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Ah, that high speed rail thing again...

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**** ...and how it's impact will not be what we're told: If building great roads and trains were the route to lasting prospe...
Thursday, 27 October 2011

The only way to achieve this would be to scrap it...

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**** ...surely? The Government attempted to quell concern that the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) could effectively become a ‘devel...
Wednesday, 28 September 2011

...or you could just cut taxes? A comment on 'green quantitative easing'.

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**** A kind soul (well my sister actually) sent me a copy of Richard Murphy and Colin Hines masterpiece entitled “Green Quantitative Ea...