"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Windmill wrote:

But we're currently paying in part for London's Olympics, which will
make a profit for London as a result of the tourism, but will do little
or nothing for Scotland.
Or Yorkshire! They should have had the Olympics nationwide, using the
facilities already existing.

My main thoughts are for the small business thrown off their premises in
East London, just for a silly sport event. It's an outrage.

The city of Liverpool had a new tram system designed and ready to go. The
lines were delivered and in storage. £70 million had been spent on design,
consutancy and materials. London got the Olympics and the tram system was
cancelled by HMG soon after on a trumped up excuse to save the rest of the
tram money.

Then Crossrail was accelerated and improved and another lane on the M1
causing chaos - for the Olympics. These infrastructure improvements will
bring great economic benefit to London.

Cities elsewhere are livid as they getting sweet nothing. Well something,
they decided to electrify the Liverpool-Manchester line, the oldest
inter-city passenger line in the world after 180 years. Not a new line,
just electric trains instead of diesel.

It's pathetic. It has promoted London yet again, and will improve its
economy, at the expense of the rest of the country.