And with it any shred of credibility the UK may have had for long term investment
This will go down as a colossally short sighted, and frankly stupid, decision.
Tories are primarily ripping off the northern tax payer again, whilst ripping off the country as a whole.
Birmingham residents who have been itching for a train journey to Harlesden can breath easy for another day
Rivalling California for over budget and under delivering. I wonder if it would have been cheaper just to build the whole thing in a tunnel to avoid planning and property issues.
What an absolute disaster HS2 has been in all respects! A colossal amount of work hours and billions of £s have been spent to achieve very little. The eventual result of the public inquiry into HS2 (probably in a decade + …) will be very damning towards all involved.
This would be like Rail Baltica stopping in Latvia instead of building the entire line to Estonia.
Such a terrible decision.
First man: “That gadgie’s a propa doylem, man.”
Second man: “He’s not a doylem, he’s gannin’ micey.”
Third man: “That gadgie’s a propa wazzock.”
Fourth man: “Divvin’ dunchus, man, or I’ll fettle ‘im.”
Referring to the person who made the decision, like…..
We used to build railways in India for shits and giggles now we can’t even build a fucking train to Manchester. Proper final days of Rome stuff here, zombie country.
That will go down well in Manchester, where the Conservative Party is currently holding its annual Party Conference.
Note the usage of the word “shelved”
Tories are going to spin it that they are just putting it on hold until the economy improves / blame it all on immigrants and the poor using up all the money.
That’s got to be the final nail in the Tory coffin.
I’m sure the government will do something else with the billions of lad they’ve bought and not sell it off cheaply to their mates? Right?
So… about that five billion of vital funding which HS2 has taken away from Welsh rail infrastructure.
And apparently the railway will end in Old Oak Common. Meaning that it will take *longer than the current route*.
Stephen Bush summed it up on the FT’s politics podcast this week when he said that this sounded like a fable from the late-era Soviet Union. A massively expensive railway line that comes to an abrupt halt six miles short of its destination.
Oh, and the fact that this is going to be a headline announcement at a conference. You’re supposed to announce new stuff at a conference, not the scrapping of new stuff.
I could fucking scream, honestly.
This is what they mean by levelling up. Big announcements about Northern investment followed by cancellations later
*Rishi Sunak has decided instead to allocate billions previously ringfenced for the project to other transport projects in the north*
Yeah I’ll believe that Rishi
Thirty years ago, François Mitterrand made a speech about the problems the UK was having with planning its HS1 route:
*’They will race at great pace across the plains of northern France, hurtle through the tunnel on a fast track and then be able to daydream at very low speed, admiring the landscape and the countryside . . . until the day when someone over there in London decides to harmonise the way things are done on the continent and on the island.’*
At the same time, an SNCF official was speaking to British journalists:
*’I understand you still have a caravan going round Kent villages asking people what they think of the line. I hear that the caravan goes quite fast.’*
Not much has happened, we learned nothing from the development of HS1 and today is the day Indonesia begins a 300+kph rail service.
18 comments
And with it any shred of credibility the UK may have had for long term investment
This will go down as a colossally short sighted, and frankly stupid, decision.
Tories are primarily ripping off the northern tax payer again, whilst ripping off the country as a whole.
Birmingham residents who have been itching for a train journey to Harlesden can breath easy for another day
Rivalling California for over budget and under delivering. I wonder if it would have been cheaper just to build the whole thing in a tunnel to avoid planning and property issues.
What an absolute disaster HS2 has been in all respects! A colossal amount of work hours and billions of £s have been spent to achieve very little. The eventual result of the public inquiry into HS2 (probably in a decade + …) will be very damning towards all involved.
This would be like Rail Baltica stopping in Latvia instead of building the entire line to Estonia.
Such a terrible decision.
First man: “That gadgie’s a propa doylem, man.”
Second man: “He’s not a doylem, he’s gannin’ micey.”
Third man: “That gadgie’s a propa wazzock.”
Fourth man: “Divvin’ dunchus, man, or I’ll fettle ‘im.”
Referring to the person who made the decision, like…..
We used to build railways in India for shits and giggles now we can’t even build a fucking train to Manchester. Proper final days of Rome stuff here, zombie country.
That will go down well in Manchester, where the Conservative Party is currently holding its annual Party Conference.
Note the usage of the word “shelved”
Tories are going to spin it that they are just putting it on hold until the economy improves / blame it all on immigrants and the poor using up all the money.
That’s got to be the final nail in the Tory coffin.
I’m sure the government will do something else with the billions of lad they’ve bought and not sell it off cheaply to their mates? Right?
So… about that five billion of vital funding which HS2 has taken away from Welsh rail infrastructure.
And apparently the railway will end in Old Oak Common. Meaning that it will take *longer than the current route*.
Stephen Bush summed it up on the FT’s politics podcast this week when he said that this sounded like a fable from the late-era Soviet Union. A massively expensive railway line that comes to an abrupt halt six miles short of its destination.
Oh, and the fact that this is going to be a headline announcement at a conference. You’re supposed to announce new stuff at a conference, not the scrapping of new stuff.
I could fucking scream, honestly.
This is what they mean by levelling up. Big announcements about Northern investment followed by cancellations later
*Rishi Sunak has decided instead to allocate billions previously ringfenced for the project to other transport projects in the north*
Yeah I’ll believe that Rishi
Thirty years ago, François Mitterrand made a speech about the problems the UK was having with planning its HS1 route:
*’They will race at great pace across the plains of northern France, hurtle through the tunnel on a fast track and then be able to daydream at very low speed, admiring the landscape and the countryside . . . until the day when someone over there in London decides to harmonise the way things are done on the continent and on the island.’*
At the same time, an SNCF official was speaking to British journalists:
*’I understand you still have a caravan going round Kent villages asking people what they think of the line. I hear that the caravan goes quite fast.’*
Not much has happened, we learned nothing from the development of HS1 and today is the day Indonesia begins a 300+kph rail service.