Who Is or has done work on the HS2 project?

[openspaceman]

51 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 don't think this HS2 project has been well managed and I cannot see why it will be so expensive. Does anyone know how the projected costs are attributed between  compensation, land purchase and civils/engineering work?

 

I grew up in the age of the car and tend to use mine for all my travelling so I do not understand how people use the rail services but I do realise a lot of people in cities don't own cars and rely on public transport and taxis.

 

Anyway one of the things it is supposed to address does include reopening some old lines  and stations but this cannot be done while the current main lines share tracks with local traffic. There are often simply not enough  time slots to fit extra traffic from old lines to run onto the existing network.

 

Consider also that trains have to be separated by 15 minutes, so one 125mph train occupies a lot more track than a commuter train running at 45 mph.

 

Taking high speed trains off the typical 4 track mainline could double its capacity for stopping trains.

 

Also more lines were closed since 1920 before Beeching than after.

 

Also think about how railways were originally funded, it was not by the government but by entrepreneurs expecting to make a profit from the investment.

[AHPP]

Nobody in their right mind will admit to being part of it. It’s an abhorrently big pork barrel project.
The only public infrastructure project worth doing is digging a hole the size of Shropshire and burying the government in it.

[spuddog0507]

7 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Nobody in their right mind will admit to being part of it. It’s an abhorrently big pork barrel project.
The only public infrastructure project worth doing is digging a hole the size of Shropshire and burying the government in it.

Digging a hole the size of Shropshire for burying the government would not be enviromently friendly ? i would put them in the middle of the channel tunnel and drill a hole in the roof, then lets see how fast they could really move !!!!

[5 shires]

I have never been a protester or ever felt like marching for any reason in my life before but i’am feeling really upset and on the same level so angry about all the ancient woodland and ecology distruction that will happen when the HS2 rips through our ever decreasing country side and let’s make no bones about it that’s basically what will happen and yes the good people of the  HS2 project will say they are doing everything by the book and relocating certain plants,newts etc etc etc but the fact is ancient woodland is exactly what it says on the tin,Ancient which means that a lot of the woods & or forest are 400 years and more old and they are irreplaceable but we all know it’s been rubber stamped now and that’s it so time to say good bye to some beautiful scenery which we have had for 100’s of years and will be gone forever man made landscaping and planting is not the same as a natural wood land or forest...sad times and I for one feel sorry for the genarations of this country who will never know the true beauty of this once green and pleasent Land.