>No Business Case For Civilisation...

>...quip that SpaceX would send a human to Mars before the UK government could get a high speed train

I get what he's saying but it's kind of ironic that SpaceX is a business that's cracking away, while the government planning is a mess.

Also the British rail network was built out in a hurry during railway boom of the 1840s by private businesses.

I imagine a lot of what we call civilisation was built by businesses rather than some great bureaucrat.

not quite built by business, built by business on rights of way, granted by the state, over other peoples cold dead bodys. Which is one of the sticking points today in that expanding rights of way for railways, etc, is just to monsterous to consider