As well as some great achievements, Lord (John) Prescott will be remembered by the transport industry for making profound multi-billion-pound investment promises that were well-intentioned but amounted to very little.
The former Labour Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Environment, Transport & The Regions died on November 21, aged 86, after a long period of poor health.
Prescott was always passionate about all things transport, when it was apparent that many of those around him in government were not on his side.
His Strategic Rail Authority was intended to keep privatised companies in check, but it was a £250 million failure and only lasted three years before his successor (and later Chancellor of the Exchequer) Alistair Darling closed it down.
On a much larger scale, his £180 billion…
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