Who Is or has done work on the HS2 project?

[struie]

On 23/01/2020 at 16:13, 5 shires said:

Yes I agree how that works and is quite normal practice....but tell me this...I have over the years get requested to quote for works for a couple of housing developers who need to have trees removed and ground clearing.....now we are not talking small jobs and small numbers(nothing as big as HS2) but all the same £1’000’s of pounds worth of work but after probably doing 4/5 quotes and not getting anywhere it occurred to me that it’s just a process they go through just to get the amount of quotes they need,I have since learned over the years the same company gets most of the work no matter what price they put in(case of who you know not what you know) had another one last week to price in Worcester removal of trees for 9 new houses so religiously and being a professional I made a site visit and put my price in even though deep down I know I won’t get a siff...it’s all well and good putting in a price for these big jobs but i’am guessing it’s all ready been sorted who will get the work no matter what quotation other companies put in..if you know what I mean.?

brown envelopes perchance?

[5 shires]

Well HS2 looks like it’s going ahead after more wasted money on consultation,I hoped Boris would be a bit different but yet another prime minister singing to the tune of big investors and share holders. It was to much to ask to pull the plug on this vast amount and waste  of money and to spend it on building more hospitals and schools and investing in more doctors,nursing staff and teachers which we need so much more then trying to save minutes of travel.really disappointed but for every one person like me there will be 5 or more who are rubbing there hands with the amount of money they will be making constructing this massive white elephant and bear in mind if the number crunchers are saying it will cost £100 million + you can guarantee it will piss all over that amount and the timescale and distruction it will cause will be vastly more then anyone is saying.

Edited February 11, 2020 by 5 shires

[5 shires]

It’s all been done very back handed by starting the infrastructure well before it was really given 100% go ahead and spending billions already so it was dam near impossible to pull the plug on this part of the expansion(notice they started in then south and not in the north?.i won’t drag this out by commenting on this subject week in and week out but I just wanted to get my view in writing because some how when you see it in words and thinking someone else might just read your views some how it makes you feel a little bit better even if the people reading it either agree and or disagree.

[Woodworks]

1 hour ago, Big J said:

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Big J said:

 

 

I don't object to investing that quantity of money in public transport, but this represents extremely poor value for money.

 

Totally agree with you J 

Down here in SW we cant even have a reliable train line at any speed due to ongoing problems at Dawlish.

 

I am past hoping for any common sense from government these days. 

[Mark Bolam]

[spuddog0507]

6 minutes ago, Big J said:

The thing is, I've not actually heard anything from anyone that wants HS2 except for politicians. It's appears to just be a massive vanity project for egotistical buffoons. 

Its something that i will never use, and i can just see HS2 as being on of the biggest flops in British history and lets face it they cant manage the rail network we have now, so god help those people who are all for HS2 what it will be like is anyones bet, i just see it as a bid drain on public funding which could be spent on far better projects to benifit more of the population nation wide, and it will be like the railways where a couple of years ago and unorganised chaose comes to mind,,,

[The avantgardener]

13 hours ago, Big J said:

 

One thousand times that. Approximately £3257 for every working age person (excluding the unemployed) in the UK. 

Small change J and we will hardly notice it now we are banking £350,000,000 a week being out of Europe. ?

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, spuddog0507 said:

Its something that i will never use, and i can just see HS2 as being on of the biggest flops in British history and lets face it they cant manage the rail network we have now, so god help those people who are all for HS2 what it will be like is anyones bet, i just see it as a bid drain on public funding which could be spent on far better projects to benifit more of the population nation wide, and it will be like the railways where a couple of years ago and unorganised chaose comes to mind,,,

Might have been a far better more beneficial use of taxpayers money to reopen some of the many branch lines closed years ago by the beeching cuts, I know up here in Aberdeenshire the amount of traffic in and out of Aberdeen city every morning and evening would be dramatically reduced by some form of half decent rail network. Give people the option to not drive rather punish them for having to drive. HS2 will most likely join the long list of massive overspend poorly run publicly financed projects( or worse still privately financed but with a huge payback/profit to be had)There is a huge disjoint with upper management and people at ground level on sites in the UK, management that has consistently been proven to be poor in comparison to many of their overseas counterparts in similar roles. 

Edited February 11, 2020 by Johnsond

[spuddog0507]

13 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Might have been a far better more beneficial use of taxpayers money to reopen some of the many branch lines closed years ago by the beeching cuts, I know up here in Aberdeenshire the amount of traffic in and out of Aberdeen city every morning and evening would be dramatically reduced by some form of half decent rail network. Give people the option to not drive rather punish them for having to drive. HS2 will most likely join the long list of massive overspend poorly run publicly financed projects( or worse still privately financed but with a huge payback/profit to be had)There is a huge disjoint with upper management and people at ground level on sites in the UK, management that has consistently been proven to be poor in comparison to many of their overseas counterparts in similar roles. 

I live approx 1/2 a mile from the westcoast main line London to Edinburgh and we have a station here that was closed in the late 60s, and now the town is growing faster than ever it would really benifit the use of the rail station to be reopened but even with the petition that has been raised i very much dought the station would reopen, shame really, 

[Mr. Squirrel]

15 hours ago, 5 shires said:

I hoped Boris would be a bit different

Why?! Have you seen his list of failed projects while he was mayor of London? The man is beyond incompetent. 

 

Anyhow. HS2 will be a failure. But lots of people will clearly get absolutely minuted in the process. So pretty much like most government projects then, but more ambitious...