HS2

[Teddy Eagle]

How many stories sum up our ability to get things done in this country?
HS2 will now take longer to complete, cost a lot more, and not be as fast as planned.
Well done all concerned.

HS2: Railway could cost up to £102.7bn and may not open until 2039, transport secretary says

Heidi Alexander told the Commons the railway, estimated in 2011 to cost £32bn, had become "a symbol of this country's decline".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Stirlingsays]

The decline in elites.

To think we ran an empire without computers but with Eton top graders.
Had inventors who created the modern world.

Today, I wouldn't trust these overpaid pen pushers to finish a wa*nk successfully.

In a social sense, I'd take the universities back a century or two.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

The decline in elites.

To think we ran an empire without computers but with Elton top graders.
Had inventors who created the modern world.

Today, I wouldn't trust these overpaid pen pushers to finish a wa*nk successfully.

In a social sense, I'd take the universities back a century or two.

Quite an image. Pen pushers would have both hands full.

 

[steeleye20]

It is more like a tube extension than a railway.

I have seen serious rail people say it will end up as a freight line, like the PO underground railway, too few actually want the trip anymore, it is a huge turn-off to customers.

It has damaged people's lives, their homes and businesses, torn up the countryside and 😎 the absurd 100 million £'s bat-tunnel.

A monument to British incompetence, this is just not acceptable and acutely damaging to what was once our reputation.

Why can we not do something which even third world countries are now doing at a fraction of the cost and on time.

😎

 

[ASCPFC]

It is more like a tube extension than a railway.

I have seen serious rail people say it will end up as a freight line, like the PO underground railway, too few actually want the trip anymore, it is a huge turn-off to customers.

It has damaged people's lives, their homes and businesses, torn up the countryside and 😎 the absurd 100 million £'s bat-tunnel.

A monument to British incompetence, this is just not acceptable and acutely damaging to what was once our reputation.

Why can we not do something which even third world countries are now doing at a fraction of the cost and on time.

😎

We've become bloated and corrupt which is apparent in any government department or contract. We've become overly regulated and legalised in order to justify such bloatedness and corruption.

 

[Midlands Eagle]

It has damaged people's lives, their homes and businesses, torn up the countryside and 😎 the absurd 100 million £'s bat-tunnel.

The M42 around Birmingham has been one huge traffic jam for years with no end in sight.

 

[ASCPFC]

The M42 around Birmingham has been one huge traffic jam for years with no end in sight.

That Bromsgrove junction has gone crazy for the last twenty years.

 

[steeleye20]

Rain stops HS2 in it's tracks, assuming it ever gets any........

'Rain could delay £100 billion HS2 even further, admits boss'.

The aim of laying the first piece of track for rthe high speed train line in 2029 could be hit by bad weather, MPs are told.

😡

 

[silvertop]

It is more like a tube extension than a railway.

I have seen serious rail people say it will end up as a freight line, like the PO underground railway, too few actually want the trip anymore, it is a huge turn-off to customers.

It has damaged people's lives, their homes and businesses, torn up the countryside and 😎 the absurd 100 million £'s bat-tunnel.

A monument to British incompetence, this is just not acceptable and acutely damaging to what was once our reputation.

Why can we not do something which even third world countries are now doing at a fraction of the cost and on time.

😎

Obviously you couldn't let go of that image either.

🙂

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

Even Bob could see HS2 was going to end in tears, as far back as 1979