He says the problems with this new "mega franchise" – union issues, infrastructure weaknesses and GTR's "human resource issues" – may be too much for GTR.
People living in metropolitan areas "are more dependent on public services on a daily basis — getting to work, public safety issues, infrastructure, roads and hospitals," said Mark Mather, a demographer and associate vice president of domestic programs at the Population Reference Bureau.
The make-up of the bank and its investment role was still to be decided but he could imagine it working closely with sovereign wealth funds and even issuing infrastructure bonds that could be sold to private investors.
An alternative approach would be to harmonise the activities of the Treasury and Bank of England, with the former issuing infrastructure bonds and the latter buying them up through its QE programme.
I am a conservative who thinks that conservatives and liberals alike have blown it on one of the nation's most important issues: infrastructure spending.
Moreover, there will be a development of an EU policy restructure to enable teleworking (e.g., taxation issues, infrastructure, company initiatives for the promotion of teleworking).
But America, she went on, must "spend some time on our own issues: infrastructure, financing health care, helping students pay off their enormous loans".
These are just some of the climate impacts that are driving concerns about weather-related injury, the spread of disease, mental health issues, infrastructure damage, and food and water security.
One option would be for the Treasury to issue new infrastructure bonds for public investment projects.
Lane-Fox said that it was not just an issue about infrastructure, but a "complex grouping of things".
