tideway

The Thames Tideway tunnel to lower the amount of sewage outflow in London is 4.3B pounds.

To be fair, the Thames Tideway is storage, whereas the Elizabeth Line is transit.

Crossrail, Thames Tideway and HS2 are all attempts at creating wealth through infrastructure spending.

Just as Thames has finished the £5b Thames Tideway Tunnel, which seems like a useful investment, more so than allegedly siphoning off £30b or.

The difference is the London Waterkeeper guy was saying it needed to be done immediately and the Thames Tideway guy was saying that they built the tunnel to buy 60 years to do it.

The Thames Tideway Tunnel might be a better comparator.

Subsequent legislations are EU directives (and associated EU fines), which are not as corrupted as local legislations, and forced the UK to start building the Thames Tideway for instance.

Adding insult to injury, while the Tideway project was ongoing the UK London area underground rail system was also being upgraded with new stations and track section requiring more TBM work of the same or perhaps greater order.

For people who don't understand the problem the tideway addresses, it's not like we just pump sewage into the river, it's that when there is a lot of rain the sewers can flood with runoff and can flood into the river.

But a turd in the Thames Tideway is supposed to be sat there, it's temporary storage, the idea is if twice as much rainfall as normal happens over a 24 hour period, we don't need twice as much sewage treatment capacity, we just need to store those turds for a while so that on average it works out OK.

That being said, while it's true that many of the "headlines" come from LN projects (Tideway, Elizabeth Line, this) it seems there have been many recent infra projects across the UK.

There is Thames Tideway, London Power Tunnels, several offshore wind farms and interconnectors, Great Western electrification, 2012 Olympics.

We're talking about the industry that just finished Thames Tideway, fully privately financed?

The water company used them while making the Thames Tideway, and they are the only known monitors of the kind fitted in the country.