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    Die Euston-Etappe von HS2 dürfte trotz Kostenbedenken grünes Licht erhalten


    Die Euston-Etappe von HS2 dürfte trotz Kostenbedenken grünes Licht erhalten

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/29/hs2s-euston-leg-poised-given-green-light-cost-concerns/

    Von tylerthe-theatre

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    16 Comments

    1. Dry_Sandwich_860 on

      It is a scandal that no major project can be accomplished in the UK within a reasonable budget. But that’s the UK…

      Politicians who don’t have the ability or incentive (given the money they’ve been raking in over the last 14 years from wealthy cronies) to make laws that enable efficient construction or, because they’re too arrogant to listen to experts and only have useless Boris-type degree, hire the right companies to do the work.

      Regardless, we need functioning infrastructure. It is simply not going to work to leave the Euston leg unbuilt. It has to be built.

      Why the northerners aren’t out burning things at this point over the state of their public transportation, I do not know.

    2. evenstevens280 on

      I feel like the cost is almost irrelevant for large infrastructure projects like this. The social and economic benefit will last for well over 100 years

    3. not_r1c1 on

      To be fair they could save money by powering the first leg of the journey purely using the nervous tension from people at Euston waiting for the platform for the Manchester Piccadilly train to be announced

    4. Broccoli--Enthusiast on

      Hi

      The north here

      Can me get anything? Please?

      Infinite money for London and the SE and fuck all for the rest of us

    5. On_The_Blindside on

      Without it going into Euston the whole thing is cocking useless. Yes it’s expensive, but it’s still the right thing to do.

    6. Dalecn on

      Just hope it’s the 10/11 platform station and not the absolutely fucking mornic *insert more words here* stupid idea of 6 platforms.

    7. Velistry on

      Just build the whole thing as originally planned.

      Seriously, this is exactly what I want to see taxes spent on.

    8. yourlocallidl on

      Why Euston out of all places? King’s Cross is just down the road.

    9. lodge28 on

      Can’t our country admit we no longer can do infrastructure right and without ballooning cost. Just need to look at Old Street Roundabout to see that.

    10. Milam1996 on

      We’ve not had a long sighted British government in well over a century. The cost of HS2 is largely irrelevant because it’ll drive a previously undiscovered level of economic development for century to come. Even the labour government endlessly chase a debt balance as if it’s a credit card bill. Lord knows why labour signed onto Tory economic thought.

    11. bobblebob100 on

      Company bids for contract to be the cheapest option so get chosen. They know full well they cant deliver at that price but it wins them the contract

      Then they go over the budget and the Government still pay them whatever it costs

    12. PluckyPheasant on

      Ah good old HS2 – the leg with the most economic benefit was the one they cut first.

    13. Chlorophilia on

      It’s mindblowing that there’s even a debate about this. High speed rail infrastructure is basic stuff for any developed country, the fact that the UK is losing its mind over HS2 – a line that is tiny compared to the high speed rail networks of most of western Europe and east Asia – is frankly embarrassing. 

    14. Redvat on

      It obviously has to go to Euston otherwise journey times to central London would be longer than the existing lines and nobody would use it.

    15. DumbledoresWife on

      The HS2 is a bloody joke. Honestly I haven’t a clue as to how it’s managed to cost this much money yet failed absolutely miserably.

    16. Electrical-Bad9671 on

      It’s a controversial viewpoint but I am glad HS2 is stopping at Birmingham (for now). Birmingham is a city which loses out and now is bankrupt, it’s a city that MPs make fun of, the BBC make fun of and we are treated as citizens who do not deserve equal opportunities. So much funding has been funneled to Manchester, George Osborne for years would go on about the northern powerhouse. Manchester has some of the best public transport in the country with a well designed tram and rail network. They can recover from not having HS2 but Birmingham has less leverage. Birmingham was dismantled when it was the thriving economy of the UK and never really recovered. I do hope HS2 brings gentrification and improved public standards for Birmingham. Brummies always get short changed from our leaders and I want that to stop

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