Originally Posted by
slip and turn
Only if you are lobbying for the repeal of existing laws are they questions of today. Otherwise they belong firmly in the past.
On the contrary, the question of the sensible allocation of limited resources is always a question of today. It's one of the primary functions of government. This will never change. Nobody has an absolute claim to any resource.
Originally Posted by
theothersimon
As for lifts on the Tube, I don't know if you have heard of Metcalfe's Law of networks. Broadly stated it says that the usefulness of a network is proportional to the square of the number of nodes. As as been pointed out elsewhere the current provision of lifts means that there are very few useful journeys that can be made today on the tube. But that is not a reason not to start the process of upgrading the network. BR managed it quite successfully, having started 40+ years ago.
What use to
anyone is a Tube line or station that doesn't get built at all, because it's too expensive to do so if it is required to be "accessible"?
If one takes the view that as a matter of principle, the line or station shouldn't be built at all if that makes it too expensive, then that is merely a position of unreasonable and unreasoning dogma.