• Swedneck
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    3 days ago

    i fucking love the DLR, i hope we get to see a future where light rail becomes more widespread in london

    • zerakith@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      I feel duty bound to say that the DLR came about because Thatcher was trying to cheap out on a jubilee extention and that there’s been much more cost since the initial cost to bring it up to the current level of operation.

      That’s not overtly a criticism perhaps a cheaper MVP that you can get over the line politically and upgrade along the way might be the right way to do it but I wonder if it would have been cheaper to do it at the start