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Re: Julian Richards gives his view on the tunnel

Feb 22, 2017, 16:08

tiompan wrote:

You have yet to provide any examples whereby anyone can actually quantify the values . Decisions are taken based on subjective comparisons but there is no agreed method .
Benjamin Harrison odiously suggested two black slaves should be considered the equivalent of one white labourer , when it came to wealth production , he didn't have a problem with method . The vast majority of us do . Does 90 minutes of watching Lionel Messi provide greater nourishment for our souls than the local parish community singing of "Amazing Grace " , or does contemplation of a flat field containing a BA linear cemetery trump Fermat's last theorem ?

This got a bit buries in the thread but I nearly cprayed my Mumtaz and lemon Rice across the room as the "news" item/ story was played out last night.

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I just watched two "Heritage" Professionals on Reporting Scotland explaining how exciting it is going to be... to go to the enormous expense of pulling down an area of Perth to look for the grave of James 1st. It will apparently be justified by the resulting tourism boost to the area which will apparently be akin to the tourism boost and the bouncing economic extravaganza enjoyed by Leicester following the reburial of the scoliotic car-park attendant/ occupant Richard III. The people of Leicester and its visitors as we all know are Living The Dream since Richard III got re-planted there. Perth is planning to build a Visitor Centre with a virtual reality image of the site of the Blackfriars Monastery where the King was killed and buried in Feb 1437 (the site is currently home to a thriving pub). I'm already getting boned-up at the thought of the whole thing. I don't think you will be able to keep me away.

Value? "Heritage Development Opportunity" or is it really "The Desperation Of Perth"?
I know!.... What about a tunnel!!!??? Would a road tunnel which went from Scone Palace under The Tay to The Inches avoiding all the Roman Camps and the Roman Fort at Bertha, the old St John's Toun wall (which Cromwell tore mostly down) and Willie Soutar's House really help this shitstorm? Or should the tunnel be built from Inchyra to Carpow instead, thus preserving the whole Central Perth site for the James 1st Development but incurring the wrath of enthusiasts of the Campaigns of Septimus Severus? It is hard to know which sinking ship to jump on to ride out the Corryvreckan of Heritage Diahorrea.

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