The Man in Seat 61Aug 3, 2023
The most accurate & incisive thing you'll read about HS2 all week... https://capx.co/hs2-is-making-britain-an-international-laughing-stock/
HS2 is making Britain an international laughing stock

It’s finally official: HS2 is ‘unachievable’, according to the UK’s Infrastructure and Projects Authority. That doesn’t mean the project isn’t still happening, or that it won’t cost us billions, it just means that years – decades, probably – ahead of its launch we know it isn’t going to deliver what we need from it. What’s […]

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Show threadTomasz Ondrusz
@seatsixtyone This struck me: ‘No sensible company would want to go anywhere near a major UK infrastructure project. No executive would want to lead one up. No civil servant would want to be involved at all. We have ensured that it is a sector without pride or prestige, because our politics prefers that we build nothing.’
Aug 3, 2023 at 10:32amWeb