The Labour Party manifesto has traded the A27 and A358 improvements against rail fare subsidies. Once again infrastructure projects are back to being political hot potatoes. Not surprisingly this is in this case for schemes in staunchly Tory areas. The issue is of course wider. The gestation period for infrastructure projects is longer than one period of government so there will always be uncertainty about specific infrastructure projects: for those that benefit from them or are affected by them and of course those that work on their design. After all the efforts to raise awareness of the value of infrastructure over the last few years, it's back to square one I think.
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