from John Redwood this morning ...
Why is the railway so untidy?http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2013/11/27/why-is-the-railway-so-untidy/Running a good business requires good housekeeping. Good modern factories are spotlessly clean. The best shops have well arranged goods, empty aisles and sparkle with their cleanliness. If you fly into Heathrow you see a busy airport around you, but you are not confronted by parked broken and decaying planes, piles of tarmac to repair the runway, or weeds growing high by the side of the taxiway.
I think I'm spotting a series of posts here, and I'm wondering if no. 3 or no. 4 is going to propose suggestions as to how the railways should be changed in order to change these issues.