In article ,
harry writes:
On Friday, 16 December 2016 19:23:59 UTC, charles wrote:
In article ,
Davey wrote:
On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:01:30 -0800 (PST)
harry wrote:

The brain dead at Westminster are finally realising what anyone with
common sense knew years ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24011403

I wonder how much money has been chucked away to date?

Article dated 9 Sept. 2013.

But I agree, HS2 is a huge waste of money and will devastate what we
have left of our countryside, and should be cancelled at the first
opportunity, if not sooner. Theresa May should realise that it would be
a vote-winner.

It's a policians' vanity project.

There probably isn't an option to do nothing, but extending capacity
of existing line would do, and knocking minutes off the times is not
required. I suspect business travel by rail will not grow inside the
country over the timescales involved - technology will intervene.

Economically, HS3 is more important - the east/west links up north,
and internationl travel by air combined with retaining a European
hub airport - that's really important.

HS2 is being promoted wrongly. It should be sold as London to Edinburgh (or
Glasgow) in 3 hours or less; it would then be quicker than a plane, since
it would need 3 hours check in. I've travelled from Spain to Paris in the
French Version.

The problem is the cost, much more expensive than France with the land costs etc.

Even just the track construction costs - their high speed costs are
1/10th of ours per unit length.

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