I think this statement is amazingly short sighted. Countries frequently waste billions on all kinds of nonsense which goes un noticed. My granddad never popped into Paris on the train. Don’t be crazy - the train! Of course that was not a thing. For my young daughter, this was old hat the day she was born. She will see the Eurostar as normal. She won’t give it a second through to drop by Paris by train. That’s progress. You literally cannot put a price on the fact we all have this new freedom. I hope that we have many more such ‘white elephants’ in the future because they significantly increase the freedoms enjoyed by everyone.