So as someone who has recently read Stephen Smiles’s book on George Stephenson who created the British railway system, I have to conclude that this is all self-induced. Basically, in England, the only law is Parliament is Sovereign, and so they could pass a law tomorrow saying “this will be built, screw the existing regulators and laws.” Which is how the railways were built. But they don’t, meaning that this is all pointless runaround, millions of wasted man hours in a pointless system that exists essentially to block nuclear reactors altogether.
So as someone who has recently read Stephen Smiles’s book on George Stephenson who created the British railway system, I have to conclude that this is all self-induced. Basically, in England, the only law is Parliament is Sovereign, and so they could pass a law tomorrow saying “this will be built, screw the existing regulators and laws.” Which is how the railways were built. But they don’t, meaning that this is all pointless runaround, millions of wasted man hours in a pointless system that exists essentially to block nuclear reactors altogether.