Complete with conceptual designs, ship specs, a funding schedule and almost every other imaginable detail, the BTE website was launched just this week and covers almost every aspect of how the project could be done.
Mr Brown said he was confident the merger would be looked at in more detail following the next general election, when the Parliamentary schedule was less "crammed".
True to Marketing 101 wisdom, he told us what he was going to tell us, then he told us in detail, and then he reminded us again in summary, none of which helped the schedule any.