Assaf 🥥🌴 on Nostr: “The planning documentation for the Lower Thames Crossing, a proposed tunnel under ...
“The planning documentation for the Lower Thames Crossing, a proposed tunnel under the Thames connecting Kent and Essex, runs to 360,000 pages, and the application process alone has cost £297 million. That is more than twice as much as it cost in Norway to actually build the longest road tunnel in the world.”
390,000 pages … too many tokens for even a modern AI to summarize :(
(yes, I'm making a dad joke about AI, because the situation in UK is otherwise pathetic)
https://ukfoundations.coPublished at
2024-09-20 16:01:42Event JSON
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