And now Steve Byers has got the difficulty of how making the changes for implementing basically a better railway system.
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In an effort to salvage the mess, Hartmut Mehdorn, the hardnosed former boss of the German railway system with a reputation for turning around failing corporations, was named chief executive of the airport in early March.
But he's also the transport secretary, which, as regular users of the UK's railway system will know, is a job and a half.
Its system uses modified railway cars on a specially built track.
China upgraded a 225-kilometer highway from China's railway system to the Mongolian border, leaving Friedland the task of convincing someone to finish the highway 80 kilometers farther to Turquoise Hill.
China upgraded a 140-mile highway from China's railway system to the Mongolian border, leaving Friedland the task of convincing someone to finish the highway 50 miles farther to Turquoise Hill.
All this means that today's railway system bears little resemblance to the one envisaged a decade ago.
Today the railway system has shrunk, the two main airlines have merged and a series of trade deals, culminating in the North American Free-Trade Agreement, have, since 1988, increased trade with the United States to some 87% of Canada's exports.
In the past decade it has built almost 60 miles of railway lines, creating an elegant subway system that is ill-suited for such a dispersed, centreless place.
And it would also mean paralysis of the system because it would take a few years to put it in place and the railway network would simply get worse rather than better.
Railway historian Basil Jeuda said the tunnel was "an important link in the development of a national rail system".
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