Train in Spain puts UK to shame

mattheman · 22 Sep 2009 at 22:54

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8268816.stm

lol from a country only 30 years ago had a very crap network system to one of the best in the world.

mattheman · 22 Sep 2009 at 23:01

Christo said:
err who paid for it? The EU. Who is the 2nd or 1st contributor to the EU (depending on how you look at it) - the UK...

yep, thats how it works, and now its eastern europe turn to take advantage.

mattheman · 22 Sep 2009 at 23:03

[FnG]magnolia;14943106 said:
Do you never tire of bashing the UK and its Government?

iam not the only one, the country has been run into the ground, now lets see next month with the irish hope they vote NO, otherwise its just goign to get worse in this country.

mattheman · 22 Sep 2009 at 23:14

cheets64 said:
Meh, we are living with train lines that old and I mean old and outdated but thats what happen when you pioneer something, the Spanish are still considered a poor country in Europe, they have land to play with and money from EU, its almost impossible for us to build lines like that without having to raze areas, we simply don't have the land to do it. The main line from London to Glasgow goes through Wigan and with the M6 and villages and the existing lines, you just cant build these super tracks for the super trains.

nor did japan but they did it.

mattheman · 22 Sep 2009 at 23:17

The Halk said:
Boris Johnson talks about it here. He makes the arguement that infrastructure is the easist thing to cut, despite it being the one that's worst for us in the long run.

yes, in the past cut spending when the uk infrastructure was tip top, now it gash how gash can it get? its going to get to a point where it has to be updated someday at what cost.

mattheman · 22 Sep 2009 at 23:34

cheets64 said:
You chat ****, the Japs lost a lot of railway during WW2, the Yanks blew whole lines apart, they started rebuilding in the 50s 60s.

They were and are tech savy, we are not.

there high speed lines were done mostly 80s.

mattheman · 22 Sep 2009 at 23:39

cheets64 said:
You chat ****,
They were and are tech savy, we are not.

we are more tech savy, british engineers invented almost everything,ok not so much but a good deal of things. Its the british government thats the problem.