Oh, they didn't learn all the lessons they needed to, but the particular point about not taking the cheapest offer is something that has been gradually percolating through the bureaucracy after a number of spectacular and widely-published cock-ups of that sort.

The plan does indeed go beyond the 2013-15 annual budgets, and the more concrete it becomes the greater the institutional inertia that will be working in its favour. Though of course nothing is completely certain until the actual budget is passed...

I couldn't find the double-deck coaches in the political agreement - that sounds like an internal DSB decision. I did find nearly DKK 1 bn in light rail, though.

- Jake

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