I am sure that there was an article on the news last night which said (I apologise for errors, please do correct me) that a one off expenditure of £1.4b followed by annual expenditure of £0.48b would avoid us all having the problems caused by road, rail and air not being able to function whenever we have a severe cold spell or a bit of snow.
There are many estimates of the cost of high-speed rail line flying around, confused by whether the sums are for HS2 or the full array of HS's (HS2, HS3, HS4, HS5, HS6, HS7, HS8, HS9 and who knows how many more Horribly Stupid schemes) but I do not think too many will argue with the following calculation: 100 x 0.48 = 48 plus 1.4 = 49.40 which is surely less than the final total cost of this crazy High-speed rail line vanity project. Lets face it, the benefits are more obvious - did I hear that it was estimated that the true cost of the disruption caused by recent weather ran at about £1b a day.
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