How decentralised is your country?
There seems to be a correlation between the degree of political centralisation in a country, and the patterns of its railways, and roads. Germany has a decentralised form of local government, delegates authority and budgetary spending outwards, and has a grid-like network of railways dating back to before the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. During the American …. Read More
Which way do your platforms point?
22% of all Infrastructure spending is wasted. This is one of the ways that some of this waste arises. Here an aerial photo of Waterloo Station Terminus. The clue is in the word Terminus. Despite having some two dozen platforms, each platform can only handle 2 or 3 trains each hour. Compare this with Flinders …. Read More