*** First, it took only 10 days and £150,000 to build the road. If the government did it, it would take 20 times as long and cost 30 times as much.***
Same in the USA. In Oklahoma, I’ve seen it take 20 years to build half of an 80 mile stretch of public road, the the other half was built as a toll road and it was in in less than 5 years.
“Same in the USA. In Oklahoma, I’ve seen it take 20 years to build half of an 80 mile stretch of public road, the the other half was built as a toll road and it was in in less than 5 years.”
In California it took them something like 30 days to rebuild a bridge on I-10 that collapsed in the Northridge Earthquake (and this was like an 8-lane bridge). The governor (Wilson, at the time) called his friend that ran a large construction firm, told him to drop his other projects, go there and rebuild it...and they’ll deal with the paperwork later.
The problem isn’t really private versus public, but rather all the crap that a publicly funded project now has to deal with.