Mastodawn

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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TerryB

@ChrisMayLA6 My son-in-law was studying HS2 as part of his degree (he’s a Chartered Surveyer now) and the conclusion even then was that it was far from value for money. A big part of the problem is how it was sold on speed, not capacity. The latter is necessary. The former is a trivial gain even if everything is completed fully, but gaining it vastly increased the cost and construction time because of the routing decisions it forced to shave the travel time.