Ha ha ha.... the disgrace that is HS2 just gets worse.
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Ha ha ha.... the disgrace that is HS2 just gets worse.
Now, to save money the Govt. has decided to reduce the top speed of trains on the new lines (thereby reducing the specifications of the system & making it cheaper to construct).
Whatever might think of the original conception of High Speed Rail, this project has demonstrated the difficulty the UK in actually delivering infrastructure projects (and specifically railways).
Just ludicrous
@ChrisMayLA6 The average UK rail traveller doesn't know what real high speed is: at the moment the Eurostar is the fastest train in Britain as far as I know, and of course it only travels through a small part of England.
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Ha ha ha.... the disgrace that is HS2 just gets worse.
Now, to save money the Govt. has decided to reduce the top speed of trains on the new lines (thereby reducing the specifications of the system & making it cheaper to construct).
Whatever might think of the original conception of High Speed Rail, this project has demonstrated the difficulty the UK in actually delivering infrastructure projects (and specifically railways).
Just ludicrous
@ChrisMayLA6 This is infuriating!
All, the money, pollution, and land destroyed for something very few wanted, or will benefit from, and it's over budget, late, and now not even what it was supposed to be.
Just disgusting! 🤬 -
Ha ha ha.... the disgrace that is HS2 just gets worse.
Now, to save money the Govt. has decided to reduce the top speed of trains on the new lines (thereby reducing the specifications of the system & making it cheaper to construct).
Whatever might think of the original conception of High Speed Rail, this project has demonstrated the difficulty the UK in actually delivering infrastructure projects (and specifically railways).
Just ludicrous
@ChrisMayLA6 Well, they've been telling us for a long time now that #HS2 is about capacity, not about shaving a couple of minutes off journey times. But they could avoid this sort of confusion by renaming it, I suppose.
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Ha ha ha.... the disgrace that is HS2 just gets worse.
Now, to save money the Govt. has decided to reduce the top speed of trains on the new lines (thereby reducing the specifications of the system & making it cheaper to construct).
Whatever might think of the original conception of High Speed Rail, this project has demonstrated the difficulty the UK in actually delivering infrastructure projects (and specifically railways).
Just ludicrous
@ChrisMayLA6 do they think the 2 in HS2 is because “high speed” is 2 x the speed of Stephenson’s Rocket?
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Ha ha ha.... the disgrace that is HS2 just gets worse.
Now, to save money the Govt. has decided to reduce the top speed of trains on the new lines (thereby reducing the specifications of the system & making it cheaper to construct).
Whatever might think of the original conception of High Speed Rail, this project has demonstrated the difficulty the UK in actually delivering infrastructure projects (and specifically railways).
Just ludicrous
@ChrisMayLA6 I just despair
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Ha ha ha.... the disgrace that is HS2 just gets worse.
Now, to save money the Govt. has decided to reduce the top speed of trains on the new lines (thereby reducing the specifications of the system & making it cheaper to construct).
Whatever might think of the original conception of High Speed Rail, this project has demonstrated the difficulty the UK in actually delivering infrastructure projects (and specifically railways).
Just ludicrous
@ChrisMayLA6 while I'm sure the higher speed is a flagship headline for the project, I had understood that the extra capacity was the important thing, so maybe we shouldn't be so worried about the ultimate speed.
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Ha ha ha.... the disgrace that is HS2 just gets worse.
Now, to save money the Govt. has decided to reduce the top speed of trains on the new lines (thereby reducing the specifications of the system & making it cheaper to construct).
Whatever might think of the original conception of High Speed Rail, this project has demonstrated the difficulty the UK in actually delivering infrastructure projects (and specifically railways).
Just ludicrous
@ChrisMayLA6 building a modern rail network takes practice and persistence, it can't work if it gets turned off and on again every two decades.
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Ha ha ha.... the disgrace that is HS2 just gets worse.
Now, to save money the Govt. has decided to reduce the top speed of trains on the new lines (thereby reducing the specifications of the system & making it cheaper to construct).
Whatever might think of the original conception of High Speed Rail, this project has demonstrated the difficulty the UK in actually delivering infrastructure projects (and specifically railways).
Just ludicrous
@ChrisMayLA6 You can't make this shite up...
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Ha ha ha.... the disgrace that is HS2 just gets worse.
Now, to save money the Govt. has decided to reduce the top speed of trains on the new lines (thereby reducing the specifications of the system & making it cheaper to construct).
Whatever might think of the original conception of High Speed Rail, this project has demonstrated the difficulty the UK in actually delivering infrastructure projects (and specifically railways).
Just ludicrous
@ChrisMayLA6 My son-in-law was studying HS2 as part of his degree (he’s a Chartered Survey now) and the conclusion even then was that it was far from value for money. A big part of the problem is how it was sold on speed, not capacity. The latter is necessary. The former is a trivial gain even if everything is completed fully, but gaining it vastly increased the cost and time because of the routing decisions it forced to shave the time.
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Ha ha ha.... the disgrace that is HS2 just gets worse.
Now, to save money the Govt. has decided to reduce the top speed of trains on the new lines (thereby reducing the specifications of the system & making it cheaper to construct).
Whatever might think of the original conception of High Speed Rail, this project has demonstrated the difficulty the UK in actually delivering infrastructure projects (and specifically railways).
Just ludicrous
Q1. Who benefits from extending the timelines and inflating the in-programme costs?
Q2. Who is paid to stop that happening?
Is there an asymmetry there?
