David Cameron speech on infrastructure

David Cameron speech on infrastructure; David Cameron speech continued SOT- Our average broadband speed is 8 megabits per second - when in South Korea the figure is 31.6/ Our planning system for infrastructure is much too expensive and unbelievably slow/ It took almost twenty years - twenty years - to get Terminal Five at Heathrow/ It will take at least fourteen years for the first section of High Speed Two to open/ Compare that to Stephenson's London to Birmingham railway in 1838/ It was the world's first major inter-city railway, built in just five amazing years from the application to parliament to the first through train- The kind of things we did almost 200 years ago, China does today/ And that matters, because we're not just up against old world economies with old world infrastructure/ We face new competitors who can leap ahead of us and install completely modern infrastructure from scratch/ India has 20 nuclear power stations in service - and 23 more planned or being built/ In 2010, Beijing capital airport overtook Heathrow as the world's second busiest/- So we can all see the challenge/ The question is how to respond.- Consistent with our purpose of preparing Britain for long-term success, this coalition government has been focussed from the start/ We've worked hard to protect capital spending/ We've made progress in sorting out planning, getting projects from the drawing board to construction, bringing forward super-fast broadband/ And we're making sure that social and environmental sustainability is not an afterthought/ That's why we're systematically de-carbonising our energy and transport and creating the Natural Capital Committee, to ensure economic development protects our environment.- But the real innovation is in the new framework we're creating - tackling the three failures that have held back the development of our infrastructure: failure of vision; failure of financing, and failure of nerve/ We're moving from a tactical, piec...