Comment by zabzonk

But of course the British did create one of the greatest transport projects - the country-wide railway system, only to have it destroyed by the Conservatives.

I used to live in North London, and it made me so sad that each branch-line I walked over on bridge, now allotments, or simply overgrown, could have taken me int the City far faster and more efficiently than the tube (I like the tube, as much as anyone can).

The UK can build things, but not if politicians are directly in charge, as they were in the Beeching cuts.