Have we got no track because it travels at more than 20mph
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Have we got no track because it travels at more than 20mph
So you're complaining about how poor our rail service is but when offered a potential solution to get the funding we need to improve it you've no interest?
Great stuff.
Wales is owed about 5bn in consequential spending from HS2. The electrification of the north Wales line would cost about 1bn (if it happens), so what about the other 4bn? Scotland and Northern Ireland got their money, why shouldn't we?
they mentioned North Wales as one of the potential recipients of the money they will "save" by not extending the HS2 to Manchester. there is no guarantee that any of the projects they mentioned they will get anything though - they were all examples of what it could be spent on.
and that isn't what this is about either. the government are still spending a LOT on the HS2 as far as Birmingham, and Wales aren't getting any of it
Scotland and Northern Ireland have been given a share of the money spent to spend on their own infrastructure, but they've designated the project as an England and Wales project, so we don't get any investment, despite not a single metre if track going anywhere near Wales.
people should be up in arms about this.
Welsh Government: Taxpayers 'let down' after Wales failed to spend 150m The money was lost by the government due to "poor account management" according to a Senedd Committee
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2023-...end-it-in-time
The Welsh Government wasted 144m on M4 relief road - MORE than 80 million of Welsh taxpayer's money was spent on drawing up proposals for the scrapped M4 relief road, while 10.72 million was used to buy land where the road would have been built
https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/ne...ief-road-went/
Senedd: 36 more Welsh Parliament members could cost extra 18m per year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-66807278
The Cardiff Bay Barrage was Barnett funded....did any of the funds used for Cardiff Bay Barrage go to anywhere other than Cardiff?
What about the SSC or the Severn Bridge....which were both built to assist Wales, all Barnett funded.
Stop your whining, Wales does very well all things considered.
As usual the tories on here win gold in mental gymnastics.
A chance to get 5 billion to improve transport in Wales 'nah it'd be wasted'.
They then whinge wondering why public transport is bad.
Wales does not to very well all things considered - we get hardly any infrastructure spending compared to parts of England.
the Severn bridge wasn't Barnett funded as it was completed a long time before the Barnett formula was introduced.
the second Severn crossing wasn't either, it was privately funded with the operators then allowed to make a massive profit from the tolls to pay it off.
basically the people of Wales have ended up paying for it. an awful decision which I think should be investigated as it represented such poor value for the taxpayer, I'm sure there was some skulduggery going on there.
Cardiff bay barrage was built more than 20 years ago for about 200 million - that doesn't seem like a good reason for Wales to forgo billions of infrastructure spending today.