Weapons of Mass Construction; Capital Spending  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8762 (Dec. 2011), page 64-65.
Topik: Tunnels; Railway Networks; Construction; Civil Engineering; Economic Development

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Giant steel columns are being drilled 16 metres into the earth at Royal Oak in west London, preparing the way for twin 6.2 metre wide tunnels to be carved underground. By 2018 this muddy patch will host Crossrail, a new east-west commuter service which will bring another 1.5m people within 45 minutes of central London. At a cost of Pounds 14.5 billion ($22.5 billion) the biggest engineering project in Europe is just one of 40 programmes labelled "nationally significant" by the British government on November 29th. The National Infrastructure Plan also lists 500 further proposals from the private and public sector, estimated at Pounds 250 billion-worth of work in total, "to 2015 and beyond". In the next three years the government will pay an extra Pounds 5 billion towards these projects. It wants British pension funds and other institutional investors to stump up a further Pounds 20 billion (see Buttonwood) and aims to attract foreign cash. The coalition hopes that such projects will get the country moving in several ways.

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