Light rail tops

A classic technique for sidelining an unwanted project is to wildly exaggerate its costs and then say it’s prohibitively expensive and unaffordable.

This is exactly what happened when light rail was assessed by policy makers two years ago. They constructed a bizarre route which needed a ludicrously expensive tunnel and then said it was unaffordable (while a second road tunnel apparently remains affordable).

But let’s not get bogged down in just debating the cost. The beauty of light rail is that it makes the