It's Official: The Ppp Is Bankrupting Our Tube ; the Independent Arbiter has Ruled That Tube Lines Wanted [Pounds]2.1bn More for Its New Upgrades Than the Work Was Worth. Is It Time to Face Facts and Ditch the Ppp?

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THERE is no one I've met so far who believed that the Earth would be engulfed by a black hole shortly after 8.30 yesterday morning. We have, indeed, survived and, rather more miraculously, England have won a football match. But a surprising number of people do seem to have fallen for the week's other black-hole scare story, about the London Underground.

There are certainly similarities between that allegedly planetthreatening "Big Bang" experiment in Switzerland and our own dear Tube. In both cases, things are despatched through long, sub- surface tunnels, at considerable expense to the taxpayer, with no certainty that they will ever reach their destinations.

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It's Official: The Ppp Is Bankrupting Our Tube ; the Independent Arbiter has Ruled That Tube Lines Wanted [Pounds]2.1bn More for Its New Upgrades Than the Work Was Worth. Is It Time to Face Facts and Ditch the Ppp?

True, the protons sent around CERN's Large Hadron Collider are travelling at just under the speed of light: not something you could say about the Circle line. But black hole stories are like Edgware trains when you want the High Barnet branch they just keep coming, on...

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