Privatising our roads will be a terrible deal

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  • super jumbe
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    • Dec 2008
    • 11610

    #1

    Privatising our roads will be a terrible deal




    Privatising our roads will be a terrible deal ? just as it was for the telecoms and water industries

    Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". In which case, going by his speech yesterday on overhauling Britain's roads and airports, David Cameron is mad.

    And this nation's potholes are only the beginning. Cameron talked yesterday about the need to upgrade everything from broadband to the rail network, while the national infrastructure plan launched during last autumn's mini-budget identifies more than 500 projects in need of urgent attention. Given the coalition's swingeing cuts on capital spending, the implication is clear: Cameron wants the private sector in charge of the bulk of those upgrades, too.

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    Privatising our roads will be a terrible deal ? just as it was for the telecoms and water industries | Aditya Chakrabortty | Science | The Guardian



    Does that mean road tax will be abolished!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Snowy79
    DK Veteran
    • Jan 2011
    • 1347

    #2
    The road are already as good as privatised. I can't remember the last time I saw the council build or repair a road.

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    • super jumbe
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      • Dec 2008
      • 11610

      #3
      Got it wrong mate?.

      There are more pot holes now then world war two.

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      • maca
        Mr. DK DJ
        • Feb 2009
        • 6310

        #4
        show me a pot hole in a road from ww2 please

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        • GastonJ
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          • Dec 2009
          • 5505

          #5
          You wish.....



          Bit extreme though. Do you want one that still exists now?
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          • maca
            Mr. DK DJ
            • Feb 2009
            • 6310

            #6
            thats not a pot hole thats burnley

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            • Kalipo
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              • Mar 2008
              • 1687

              #7
              Originally posted by GastonJ
              You wish.....



              Bit extreme though. Do you want one that still exists now?

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              • super jumbe
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                • Dec 2008
                • 11610

                #8
                Potholes reported over last 30 days

                Potholes.co.uk - Find potholes

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                • GastonJ
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                  • Dec 2009
                  • 5505

                  #9
                  Don't be cheeky - that's a picture of the proposed new quality road that Dave Cameron has in mind when he sets up quality assurance of road building by paying private companies public money, or charging motorists to drive per mile.
                  Last edited by GastonJ; 20 March, 2012, 00:58.
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                  • happy_highlander
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                    • Aug 2010
                    • 3535

                    #10
                    The ~~~~in gypos will make a fortune putting in the tender for all that tarmac. And just imagine how much they will be able to skim to do the driveways cheap
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                    • GastonJ
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                      • Dec 2009
                      • 5505

                      #11
                      Boys from the Blackstuff the sequel?
                      Last edited by GastonJ; 21 March, 2012, 00:55.
                      My master plan is to live forever..... going to plan so far
                      Despite the cost of living, it's still very popular.
                      No good deed goes unpunished....

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                      • Johnner
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                        • Jun 2010
                        • 7069

                        #12
                        Originally posted by happy_highlander
                        The ~~~~in gypos will make a fortune putting in the tender for all that tarmac. And just imagine how much they will be able to skim to do the driveways cheap

                        Good ! Might keep the *****s busy for a few years,and away from Ireland.
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                        • lagerland
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                          • Sep 2010
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                          #13
                          Originally posted by happy_highlander
                          The ~~~~in gypos will make a fortune putting in the tender for all that tarmac. And just imagine how much they will be able to skim to do the driveways cheap
                          R tarmac ya drive r tell wot r do r do it for a caravan for me ma..............
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                          • GastonJ
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                            • Dec 2009
                            • 5505

                            #14
                            Originally posted by lagerland
                            R tarmac ya drive r tell wot r do r do it for a caravan for me ma..............
                            That's MTV1's line
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                            • amccart
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                              • Mar 2012
                              • 1

                              #15
                              No to tolls!

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