Hopefully Labour will get this sorted, and with London being a Labour city, will reverse nonsense like mothballing Euston connection.
Anyone tell me how much this has cost so far?
Why does it feel like there’s going to be a note left in the treasury next year saying ‘there’s no money. Good luck’?
Hey, HS2.That guy who’s grade 2 listed house you demolished in Hillingdon to make way for an access road would like a word with you.
Of course it is achievable, what we can’t go on with is this useless Tory government
You know how many other countries managed to get good public transport infrastructure without it costing eye watering amounts, and without huge delays? I do, they did it in a piecemeal manner. They wrote regulations to slowly introduce better infrastructure over time. So when an area had climbing infrastructure, they didn’t just maintain it, they upgraded it to the new standards. Where we allow the infrastructure to get into date of disrepair and then go we need a new one and attempt to build it all at once. Or completely change the infrastructure all at once. It’s a stupid short term way of doing things.
Translation: We blew all the money on stuff. No, we ain’t building it yet. We need more money to blow on further stuff.
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At this point, the tories are likely to just disrupt everything so they can blame it all on Labour, criticise them for everything, even if Labour isn’t in power. Hell, they blame Labour for the past 12 years of tory rule.
I immigrated from Greece 15 years ago (various reasons – not just financial) and all my friend and family back home are laughing at me now 🙁
It will cost a hell of a lot more than initially forecasted, be decades behind schedule (like its trains will be) and will almost certainly have its route cut short. The money spent on it would have been better spent on upgrading the existing rail network, however no one has the balls to admit it has all been one huge mistake.
Blummin’ madness that Britain can’t build a type of trainline that’s been in existence since the 1980’s.
I’d like to point out it’s not down to the engineering, it’s political interference.
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Hopefully Labour will get this sorted, and with London being a Labour city, will reverse nonsense like mothballing Euston connection.
Anyone tell me how much this has cost so far?
Why does it feel like there’s going to be a note left in the treasury next year saying ‘there’s no money. Good luck’?
Hey, HS2.That guy who’s grade 2 listed house you demolished in Hillingdon to make way for an access road would like a word with you.
Of course it is achievable, what we can’t go on with is this useless Tory government
You know how many other countries managed to get good public transport infrastructure without it costing eye watering amounts, and without huge delays? I do, they did it in a piecemeal manner. They wrote regulations to slowly introduce better infrastructure over time. So when an area had climbing infrastructure, they didn’t just maintain it, they upgraded it to the new standards. Where we allow the infrastructure to get into date of disrepair and then go we need a new one and attempt to build it all at once. Or completely change the infrastructure all at once. It’s a stupid short term way of doing things.
Translation: We blew all the money on stuff. No, we ain’t building it yet. We need more money to blow on further stuff.
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At this point, the tories are likely to just disrupt everything so they can blame it all on Labour, criticise them for everything, even if Labour isn’t in power. Hell, they blame Labour for the past 12 years of tory rule.
I immigrated from Greece 15 years ago (various reasons – not just financial) and all my friend and family back home are laughing at me now 🙁
It will cost a hell of a lot more than initially forecasted, be decades behind schedule (like its trains will be) and will almost certainly have its route cut short. The money spent on it would have been better spent on upgrading the existing rail network, however no one has the balls to admit it has all been one huge mistake.
Blummin’ madness that Britain can’t build a type of trainline that’s been in existence since the 1980’s.
I’d like to point out it’s not down to the engineering, it’s political interference.