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Neil Williams · September 26th 03, 05:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 26 Sep 2003 08:37:30 -0700, (Boltar) wrote:

Quite right. And all the tax money I pay as a londoner should go only to london.
Wales and Manchester need regeneration money or money for new or metro lines?
Tough ****, get the money from your council tax. Oh but wait , didn't the money
for manchester metro link come partially from central government? How come
you're not complaining about that eh??

The up-front money for Metrolink may indeed have done so - but
Metrolink will probably save the Government money in the long-term
because the heavy-rail lines it replaced would almost certainly have
required a subsidy, while Metrolink itself breaks even on normal
running costs.

Neil

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