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In the UK's defence it doesn't have the luxury of simply ordering change to happen.
That being said, the UK sucks balls at planning and building and I don't think this will now ever improve. We've hit peak UK about twenty years ago in that regard ๐ฅน.
Isn't China famous for building roads around the houses of people who refuse to move out of their houses?
Didn't the UK government force the people on the Olympic site in Stratford to sell their houses dirt cheap?
It's the building part that is key. The UK wouldn't have past the planning stage to get to the part where they build around NIMBYs. And yeah, the hey day of UK infrastructure has past us sadly. The last good thing we did was the Olympics. Ten years ago, in the South in the country.
It also doesn't help if after getting planning permission to build a new railway you then cancel the project because the prime minister is supporting a dipshit.