@Pallan.
We could do it quite easily - just like we did the railways or the canals in an earlier era.
Simple
Abolish all human right legislation including any rights for compensation.
Create government rights to forcibly move people/firms/factories
Scrap all health and safety legislation, workers rights etc.
Make it an offense against the state to report/publicise any fatality/injury.
Scrap all rights to query and challenge government actions though the courts.
Abolish the right to vote for thick and stupid citizens (that's most of them).
Anyone who complains - stick them up against the wall and shoot them.
I've worked in China and also in places where a project director was under threat of execution if the project was delayed and late.
It works - though you might not like it in reality if you came face to face with it. Scaffolding collapses kills umpteen - they bulldozer away the remains along with the stiffs and have it up and repaired the next day - in the UK the H&S executive would be having multiple orgasms.
As it is, the UK is the most overpopulated place in the EU bar the Netherlands in terms of persons/square mile. So anywhere you want to put any infrastructure is going to cause a lot of people to be annoyed and all are going to do their utmost to frustrate anything - 'cos their rights are being offended innit'
Compare today's population of the UK (70million) to when we were building the railways (10 million in 1800) and the canals (approx 7 million in late1700's).