This will be studied as an example of sunk cost fallacy for years to come.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c997d7lkjv8o

Posted by Dando_Calrisian

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  2. HS2 may never arrive but the gravy train certainly did for some.

  3. It took 80,000 pages of planning and over 15 years, likely £50 million + to build a 3 mile trainline/station which still hasn’t finished and likely wont for a number of years further. 18,000 pages on the environment and thousands of pages about animals not known to be prominent in those areas.

    The amount of Red Tape we place on getting things done are otherworldly. Part of me feels it’s just an excuse to milk the government for longer periods, justify their jobs and ask for additional budget. This is something China would’ve built in a month.

    I mean the HS2 £100 million bat shelter, the £100 million + fish disco for the power plant to save 1 fish every 12 years estimate…. bottomless bucket.

  5. Let me guess. They need a couple more quid to finish it off as these delays are going to cost a little?

  6. We need to see legal action against those behind HS2. The last government and the contractors need to be investigated for fraudulently taking so much tax payer money and killing this project.

  8. Just cut the losses now. It’s looking like it’s going to top £100bn and still not be delivered by 2033.

    We can’t build infrastructure in the UK.

  10. This is why, when you have someone who delivers HS1, you give them HS2 and not the lowest bidder with no experience.

  11. I have had the displeasure of having to do work on a HS2 site(it was nothing to actually do with HS2) and the pace they work at is appalling.

  12. I was responsible for the land acquisition for the southern sector for 4 years and I can tell you first hand that the amount of red tape and bureaucracy is beyond ridiculous.

  13. This shambles should have been knocked on the head years ago. We will never get a return on investment for this.

  14. can’t even collect the bins in Birmingham so this level of project is clearly beyond broken Britain

  15. The UK’s £100,000,000,000+ white elephant.

    It’s a sick joke how bad the UK is at building infrastructure.

  17. Meanwhile China has built 10,000km of railways in 6 years lol

    And India are building 50 new airports in the next 5 years lol

    There’s a reason we are no longer a world superpower

  19. I am once again going to give my opinion that nobody asked for…if they’d started it in Scotland instead, you can be sure it would have reached completion in London.

  21. Cancel it and use the money elsewhere. What a monumental waste.

  22. Some serious money laundering and fraud going on.

  24. I wonder how much some people have made off of this… some people must be minted.

  26. Just so I get this right, they commenced in 2017 and won’t be running by 2033 for 140mi of track, that’s less than 9 miles a year to get it running.

    But China (albeit human rights are more of a suggestion there) can do multiple high speed lines across the country one of the longest being 1390mi of track between 2005 to 2018, around 100 miles per year.

    It gets even more stupid when you realise the original suggestion for HS2 was in 2010… 23 years before expected completion.

    No idea why this country is falling behind everyone in terms of economic growth…

  27. I’m a geotechnical consultant and did a few site investigation jobs for them years ago. Took us 2 weeks to drill a basic 15m borehole in a farmers field. Normally a 15m borehole is a days work with a fair wind.

    The HS2 goons were more bothered about us being ensconced in double layers of heras fencing and where we were going to piss. Absolute disgraceful. Money for old rope for us though.

  30. Why not outsource building of it to China? Would be done in 2 years most.

  31. For anyone wondering, HS1 was actually the Channel Tunnel and took six years to build between 1988 and 1994. Meanwhile, HS2 will take more than 16 years since it started in 2017 and won’t be finished by 2033. HS1 is about 50 miles so averages out to 8.3 miles per year whilst HS2 is, at best, 8.8 miles per year.

    I mean sure, HS1 is also under the ocean, required bespoke advanced drilling eqipment and had to exactly line up with another tunnel being dug by another team but… have you seen those green fields HS2 needs to go through?

  32. I have an idea: why don’t we privatise it’s construction and put it all in the hands of McKinsey & Company contractors for £2000/day ?

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