Scandalously expensive, grossly extravagant, over indulgent, a serious showpiece, white elephant! Vanity of vanities!

 

Scandalously expensive, grossly extravagant, over-indulgent, a serious showpiece, white elephant!

At £75 m/Km, too! Is that right? Is that 10 times the cost per Km of REBUILDING the 50 Kms Borders Railway for £353 million in 2015? And, every bus is now badly inconvenienced with a longer and slower journey into the city centre. This is not very good, is it? Are you pleased with what you have done?

Refers to the mighty Metro "bus on rails" tram extension to amaze, shock and awe in Centenary Square (rebuilt 1991, 2013, 2019 for £16 m!) and Broad Street/Hagley Road, Brum.

"Deluded clowns in power"

Regarding the £776 m, 14 Kms, 2014 Edinburgh Tram, "I always saw it as a vanity project and, frankly, a green folly, as Edinburgh already had (and has) one of the best city-run bus services in the country. I think it was about looking green rather than being green." Author, environmentalist and broadcaster, from Govan.

The Metro extension down Broad Street is even more expensive than the construction cost for the Corporation Street tram.  The Edgbaston extension is £75 m/Kms.  This is 12 times the cost of Scotland's REBUILT Borders Railway when it opened in 2015 for £353 m for 57 Kms!

Metro is a VERY fancy showpiece, grossly extravagant and over-indulgent at a time when belt-tightening is needed for the Brexit/Covid/Climate/Ecological crises.

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"The biggest White Elephant ever to have happened to our City, has done untold damage to the economy and the cost will never be recuperated, just a fancy showpiece for the deluded clowns in power."

from B10Forever

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/what-broad-street-looks-like-19264591

Rethink Trident - and our persistent warfare in every year for the last 100 (no exaggeration)!

Trident is too destructive to be of any practical use.
It's a white elephant of white elephants.
It cannot possibly stop the UK from being attacked since plenty of other countries don't have this magnificent weapon of war but, have either NOT been attacked by anyone or, been attacked by us!
The countries with the biggest and most impressive arsenals of war, do the most aggression against weaker counties.