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Martin Brown wrote:

Yes. They are installing them in Salford and Manchester at the moment
under some deranged PFI scheme that has all the hallmarks of a buy now
pay through the nose later con merchants paradise....

A depressingly wonderful summary of much of what is now going on across
the board in public infrastructure.

A bunch of people who have no idea what they're talking about (i.e. the
managers responsible for hitting "targets") (not the engineers of course
-- oh crikey no!), talking to another bunch of people who also, almost
certainly, do not know what they're talking about (the salesmen sent out
to "hunt and kill").

John
:-(