Emeritus Prof Christopher May6d ago

Ha ha ha.... the disgrace that is HS2 just gets worse.

Now, to save money the Govt. has decided to reduce the top speed of trains on the new lines (thereby reducing the specifications of the system & making it cheaper to construct).

Whatever might think of the original conception of High Speed Rail, this project has demonstrated the difficulty the UK in actually delivering infrastructure projects (and specifically railways).

Just ludicrous

#railways #HS2 #politics
h/t FT

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@ChrisMayLA6 The average UK rail traveller doesn't know what real high speed is: at the moment the Eurostar is the fastest train in Britain as far as I know, and of course it only travels through a small part of England.
Mar 22 at 5:54pmWeb