Some of these bridges are up a couple of hundred years old. Long before roads were really a thing never mind large buses etc.
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This is a really brilliant explanation 
thanks
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You have two options. Increase the height of the bridge, which means youāll have to rebuild about half a mile of trackbed, then reinstall track and signalling and totally replace the overhead power line infrastructure (if applicable).
Or you can lower the road. Both options cost tens of millions so itās only rarely done.
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You are simply offloading the cost onto the processes like the one you mentioned around insurance, safety checks and contingency plans around damage to the bridge.
Not to mention - restricting routes for double decker buses, which could perhaps do with some such buses to reduce traffic.
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In the big cities there are very few railway bridges that wonāt take a full-height double decker so itās not seen as a big priority. It was actually done opposite where I lived in Colchester. In that instance it was an A-road and the road was lowered and the bridge widened so the road could become a dual-carriageway. This is usually when alterations are made, as part of a larger project.
But otherwise itās on the drivers first and foremost. Personally I think the best option is to have sensors on the roof of a bus that, when triggered, apply the brakes. But for whatever reason, car tech hasnāt reached the bus industry yet.
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The Tories sold off our assets to foreign owners and it looks like Labour are doing the same.
This is disgraceful.
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Royal Mail is more of an anchor than an asset. The Post Office for example, has a much healthier business model, has wider profit margins and places less liability on the state (Industrial action, pension fund etc). It will never be sold off.
Iām not ideologically opposed to nationalisation or privatisation, the focus should be what form of ownership gives the best deal for tax payers and consumers, in that order. The golden stake model is somewhat effective in curbing excesses.
Iām very curious to see at the end of this parliament how the nationalised trains franchises will be operating.
I had no idea until right now Royal Mail and The Post Office were separate entities.
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To be fair, hasnāt this been rumbling on for a while now (rumoured to be taken over by this guy)?
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It has, but itās just another of the previously owned public utilities that have been sold off by governments for short term gain.
If Iām paying a fortune for my electric, gas, water, post, etc, at least keep the money in this country.
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Good.
Proper soyboy
Manufacturing consent in plain view. CNN has done this multiple times just in the past year.
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Western media would neverā¦ 
Would be glorious if this weasel resigns
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The Trudeau Trump stuff is all very odd, Trudeau approach towards Trump seems all over the place. Guy lost his political instincts quite a while a go, been subsisting off virtue signaling pandering ever since.
Starmer should be watching all this very carefully. Trump and Elon potentially have the power to sink his government in the first term
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Canadian Tories are supposedly polling very high, another Liberal party on the cusp of taking a beating and probably learn nothing from it.
Brave of you to assume Labour doesnāt sink it themselves first 
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Iām putting together a plan for a political coup. Send Starmer back to the greedy law firm he worked for, annex Clacton, cook-up some vague corruption charge to get Farage behind bars and out of the news.
What happens when you fill your staff and advisors with morons with no life experience, merit or success but plenty of online and university safe space identity bullshit.
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