11 Years Late..Here today, Gone tomorrow Politicians
Perhaps I could misquote Mathew Engel from "11 Minutes Late"...
Creating a viable transport network in the twenty-first century is one of the most complex responsibilities of a modern government. It requires long term planning and financial commitment. There is political risk because projects go wrong (remarkably often in the case of Ireland). And the reward may be so far in the future as to be invisible to politicians concerned with tomorrow's headlines, next weeks polls and next year's election.
Successive Ministers for Transport who cowered on major public transport projects in the late 1990's cost us this situation. And 11 years later...we have another one!
Last edited by Jack O'Neill : 16-09-2011 at 10:10.
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