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Business Thomas Business Thomas

What if the Project Is a Tattoo?

Some decisions are like haircuts: easy to change. Others are like tattoos: permanent, visible, hard to undo. Major infrastructure projects fall firmly in the tattoo category.

In a previous post, I advised that for “haircut” projects, we should just get on with it.

But what do we do about “tattoo” projects? That’s what today’s post is about.

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Transport Thomas Transport Thomas

The Transport Productivity Puzzle

London is one of the highest productivity cities in Europe, and has some of the best transport.

Other cities in Britain are some of the lowest productivity, and have the worst transport.

Seems obvious these things are linked... but how to prove it?

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