{"id":206985,"date":"2026-01-29T06:44:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=206985"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:44:46","slug":"road-and-rail-sectors-trapped-in-negative-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=206985","title":{"rendered":"Road and rail sectors trapped in \u2018negative cycle\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s public roads and railways market is stuck in a \u201cnegative cycle\u201d of short-termism, risk-aversion and delivery failure that is undermining economic growth, according to an interim report from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Published on Wednesday (17 December), the watchdog\u2019s market study\u2026<br \/>\nThe post Road and rail sectors trapped in \u2018negative cycle\u2019 appeared first on Construction News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/civils\/road-and-rail-sectors-trapped-in-negative-cycle-19-12-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s public roads and railways market is stuck in a \u201cnegative cycle\u201d of short-termism,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206985-road-and-rail-sectors-trapped-in-negative-cycle.jpg",1024,683,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206985-road-and-rail-sectors-trapped-in-negative-cycle-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206985-road-and-rail-sectors-trapped-in-negative-cycle-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206985-road-and-rail-sectors-trapped-in-negative-cycle-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206985-road-and-rail-sectors-trapped-in-negative-cycle.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206985-road-and-rail-sectors-trapped-in-negative-cycle.jpg",1024,683,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206985-road-and-rail-sectors-trapped-in-negative-cycle.jpg",1024,683,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206985-road-and-rail-sectors-trapped-in-negative-cycle.jpg",1024,683,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206985-road-and-rail-sectors-trapped-in-negative-cycle-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206985-road-and-rail-sectors-trapped-in-negative-cycle-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}