Part of Labour's plans include setting up an Infrastructure Commission to advise on important bits of railways and roads and to try and make the planning process a bit smoother.
The weekend includes a rare opportunity to walk the High Line, the celebrated bit of mothballed railway on the West Side; a look at Southpoint, the abandoned ruins of the smallpox hospital on Roosevelt Island; and a tour of Fresh Kills, the legendary landfill on Staten Island.
Although we found railway noise to be significantly associated with blood pressure, the data set was missing a considerable number of railway estimates.
It will also feed on concerns that aspects of the current structure are not working, notably the buck-passing between different bits of the railway when things go wrong.
"Bits of the railway were priced by different sections of British Rail but since privatisation some operators have put up fares at different rates than others," he said.
But fellow Conservative MP Cheryl Gillan, whose constituency would be affected by HS2, said it was "a £33bn-plus way of solving a bit of overcrowding on a couple of railway lines" and would take longer than its estimated 2033 completion date.
It handily beat out a consortium backed by Rail India, the empire-building bit of India's state railways.
Mostly he talked about leaky country houses and the gothic majesty of railway station architecture, the "lovely bits of old England" that were, according to Sir John, under grave threat from the uncaring future.
India has 108,706km of railway tracks.
Railway axles are vital parts of railway.
