Reply to: London bridge is falling down!

[edison]

London infrastructure is appalling. Where the **** does all the council tax and business rates go?

I think you could make that argument for England and maybe the UK as a whole. Investment in infrastructure has been lagging for decades. The same is true in the USA.

All we can afford now is patching up bits and the odd shiny new thing like Crossrail that runs years behind schedule and many billions over budget.

At least London has had Crossrail and several other major infrastructure projects plus likely to benefit from airport expansion, HS2 etc. Other parts of the country have been shamefully underfunded in comparison. I'll believe it when I see it, but BoJo's 'levelling up' of infrastructure and investment is actually one of the only sensible things he's ever said.

[SueEllen]

Shoot the f**ker before it breeds!

Don't worry she is too old, and as I remember from the news stories about Kids Company couldn't have children anyway.

[darmstadt]

If we didn't know you any better, in this woke atmosphere, cancel culture and snowflake tulipstorm, that could quite easily be classified as a hate crime

Shoot the f**ker before it breeds!

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[Mordac]

Shoot the f**ker before it breeds!

Even Xog wouldn't...

[Zigenare]

Shoot the f**ker before it breeds!

[Mordac]

Wasn't that becaue the IRA had tried to blow it up?

Twice in the late 90's, but it was structurally unsound before that. It probably needs replacing with a new structure, or it's just a giant money pit. It affects Barnes more than anywhere else, and Barnes is in Richmond, which is LibDem/Green. They won't willingly spend a shilling on road-related improvements, so don't expect any change anytime soon.

[northernladuk]

Oh the guy with the spray paint has been out. It must fix things just by being there as they've been on the road outside our house for years.

That said the N has worn out but I can still make out the C, U and T....

[Mordac]

They were closing it in the '80s.

Plus it's between two London Boroughs and TFL, each of whom want the other two to pay for it. Classic slopey-shoulders.

[OwlHoot]

They were closing it in the '80s.

Wasn't that becaue the IRA had tried to blow it up?

[minestrone]

I dunno, you could just be like the Italians where they find the cracks after everyone has died.

[SueEllen]

London infrastructure is appalling. Where the **** does all the council tax and business rates go?

Garden Bridge - Failed London Garden Bridge project cost GBP53m - BBC News

Water Cannon - Boris Johnson’s water cannon just cost us GBP300,000 – and that’s not the only time he’s burnt through taxpayers’ money | The Independent

[AtW]

This would have never happened under Labour

[minestrone]

London infrastructure is appalling. Where the **** does all the council tax and business rates go?

[Old Greg]

London infrastructure is appalling. Where the **** does all the council tax and business rates go?

Paying off sexual harassment claims against a former Mayor of London.

[Paddy]

Hammersmith Bridge closed after cracks worsen in heatwave - BBC News



hmm lack of maintenance for decades, good job everyone is paying attention

London infrastructure is appalling. Where the **** does all the council tax and business rates go?