Spot on Bahrain.
If politicians had had the spine to do what they should have done years ago, invest in transport, we wouldn't find ourselves in a situation where the time and money needed to take the environmental option just isn't available.
8 Years ago I wrote to the then Minister for transport and said that we were falling seriously behind in the provision of airport capacity (specifically runways) and that we would find ourselves left behind Europe and exposed on safety if we didn't act then. His response was to refute my suggestion, stating that we were well ahead of needs and cited T5 as an example.
It irriatates (rather than satisfies) me to see 8 years later that the arrogant know-alls were wrong. If we in our work were as incompetent as many of the "important" politicians are, we would have our licences removed. Why is there never any accountablilty in government, or come to think of it, management?
CJ