HS2

[pete01]

On the news today...

The budget will go up and the expected opening date FOR PART OF THE TRACK will go up as well:

From £32B and 2026

To £103B and 2039.

If you want to ride the full length of the new line, you'll have to wait until...

December '43.

Someone is taking the ****.

And it will be slower than expected.

(The train not the project)

 

[securespark]

And that's the cherry on the top.

Great.

 

[pete01]

How do japan and other countries get things done?

 

[Brigadier]

More than a trip around the moon (ten billion more).

Some "chums" have made a pretty penny out of it though, no doubt ........

 

[blup]

Doubling of the budget is pretty good given the inflation of the last few years. Leaving out Leeds to Manchester was just daft.

 

[morqthana]

Sunk cost - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[diy_fun_uk]

We used to lead the world when it came to choo choo stuff.

What a farce.

 

[morqthana]

HS2 is the wildest white elephant in British history. Please put it out of its misery | Simon Jenkins

The government is in thrall to the sunk-cost fallacy. Scrap the project, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com