Posts by Allosteric

You are right about the future of driverless cars and its future implications for work productivity. However, if you make the argument that making new roads is productive as people get to work sooner and can work more, doesn't building new Railway lines also have the potential to be beneficial for the same reason? If more people are switching from cars to train (which they have been for quite some time) then we get an economic fillip. Therefore building increased train capacity will allow more people to make the switch to trains and become more productive. I agree this would be hard to model but you would think Whitehall might have the capacity......