Good money after bad

WORK on the six-year project to renovate the Palace of Westminster is being held up due to a spat with the MoD over car parking.

Perhaps it’s time to give serious thought as to whether we should be wasting £4 billion on repairs.

This is not only because the budgets of other major projects such as Crossrail and HS2 have spiralled out of control, but because it is looking increasingly likely that Brexit will never happen.

In which case, the UK Parliament would become increasingly irrelevant as more powers are surrendered to, or seized by, unelected commissioners obsessed with creating a European super-state.

ROBERT READMAN, Bournemouth, Dorset. WHAT is going wrong with our transport system? Why the big delays on HS2 and Crossrail? We are a

disgrace to the memory of the Victorians, who were wonderful engineers without the benefits of the modern technology we enjoy.

JOHN WATKIN, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. NEW trains built abroad for Crossrail are being stored in a depot (Mail).

Can’t they be used on what’s left of the existing railways until this new line is finished, if ever? As a former railwayman, I believe that the money could have been better spent on the existing network.

JIM TRICKETT, Pontefract, W. Yorks. HOW annoying to see all those high-tech trains standing idle in a depot, waiting to be used on Crossrail, which could now be delayed until 2021 and counting.

What a waste of resources. Please can we have some of the trains to run on our pathetic Northern lines, where commuters are fed up with the useless ‘ buses on rails’ that purport to be suitable for the Northern Powerhouse — another soundbite from former Chancellor George Osborne that means absolutely nothing to the people who live in the North. JENNY FOSTER, Selby, N. Yorks.