In this short video, Evan Davis explains:
- Why you might want to build the best possible five year-old railway;
- The risk of the "paralysis of analysis";
- Why we're not as bad at engineering as we might think; and
- How sometimes you might have to compromise and just build a runway or a road
Evan was talking about his discoveries during the making of the BBC/Open University co-production Built In Britain.
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