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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding Dave: Read "Broken Rails" by Christien Wolmar. It's about the privatisation of the British system, and the pitfalls of seperating infrastructur from operations. [/quote] If and when I have time, I might peruse it, but it is a safe bet to say that the book was written by a socialist pessimist. Whenever there is change for the positive on the whole, there is always a minority group that loses out. I expect Mr. Wolmar is one of that loser group. "Broken Rails" sounds like a British railroad version of Ralph Nader's "Unsafe At Any Speed", a total hack job on the fine Chevy Corvair back in the early 60's. Here's a metaphoric equivelance - Writing a nasty critique of something that is having the predictable startup snafus in it's infancy aka Network Rail is like someone back in the 1790's writing a nasty critique of representative democracy based on the early problems experienced by the newly formed United States of America. Time has proven the superiority of representative democracy, and time will prove the superiority of open access.
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