Really? I've said on many times I'm looking forward to using Crossrail - the fact that the Spanish construction giant Ferrovial is behind much of the work would surely then mean I'd be "praising it to the hilt"...??? Or perhaps I do already on this forum http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=812
As this is a Spanish forum, surely news on rail developments in Spain are more relevant?

I agree but it was you that introduced the UK in response to another post.

Yes, that's Aggy who's always trying to tell us UK good, Spain bad. If life was so great in the UK you wonder why he devotes so much time to this forum.

Good thinking. They might just as well, they've pretty much ruined all the coastline, why not the interior too? I see this week in the paper the government have stepped in to stop plans to build the biggest tourist complex in Europe in sensitive areas of Murcia. But for how long, the local council is all for it. It included homes for 66,000 people, loads of hotels, five golf courses etc. Spain needs more homes and golf courses?

Huh? has Aggy build a Bot to automatically post negative stuff regardless of topic?

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Incidentally did you know Ferrovial (a Spanish company) are doing a lot of the work?
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Yes and did you know that AVE is basically a German designrd train with some imput from the UK and the parts to construct it are imported from another country ?

As you see we can all be selective in our views if we wished to Stevie.

As mentioned by several OPs, when you begin posting balanced opinions, rather than selected links to suit your personal agenda, you may find your views are given a little more serious consideration.

The most depresing coastal develpments I have come across are almost exclusively Spanish, consisting of miles of unsightly,ugly holiday homes/apt blocks strung out right next to lovely beaches.

They make most of the international tourist developments appear quite decent and acceptable by comparison.

Yet all we seem to hear is endless blame for the mess laid on N.European tourists who had virtually nothing at all to do with the design and development of these areas.

We have miles of great beaches without a building in sight here in UK, one of the reasons they filmed Robin Hood, Harry Potter etc here. I know a guy from Galicia that visits here regularly, and he said, "We have beaches as good as this, but they nearly all have concrete right up to the shoreline." We like parts of Costa de la Luz but there are buildings planned in many places along it, Caños de Meca, Valdevaqueros etc. Do they have a death wish?

You do make some stupid comments Why would he be annoyed, that's your job when you make yourself the defender of anything spanish and someone tells it like it is. I would guess most posters don't give a toss about the railways and certainly doesn't influence peoples decision to live in Spain.

I thought J2 didn't read this thread - can't help herself, can she?

I meant the hundreds of links you put on about trains

Yeah strange that. A thread called "train development news" containing links to news about ... trains. Should it just be "Spain Bad UK Good" knocking posts from yourself and Aggy?
Be nice if you were true to your word though. I won't hold my breath

As someone posted....it is you who brought the UK up, don't remember I did

Jacky - are things really so dire for you in the UK, that you need to post 3 times in succession in one afternoon on a thread that you claim bores you?

Obviously not as dire as you yearning for a country you can't live in and having to live in that dire council flat (or ex-council flat) in London You are on more forums than I have had paellas