Just a bewildered observation really. On the news, apparently HS2 is now expected to cost 3x -- THREE TIMES - the original estimate! So £100 Bn from £30 odd. How can you have a `quote` for something and be £70,000,000,000 quid out? Rhetorical I know but Jesus Christ!
AND, I saw Newsnight the other night and if they abandon it, that will cost IIRC £8Bn? How? The land they`ve acquired can be resold, any hardware inventory can be disposed of. how does it cost £8Bn to NOT do something? All rhetorical, don`t expect an answer (cos there aint one) just gob-smacked by the ease with which untold millions can just disappear into a void.
HS2
Re: HS2
In 2020 the main line from London to South West still runs along the seafront at Dawlish!! Open to all stormy weather and often an incident.
That's where changes should be made, but south of Bristol no one seems to exist (The same can be said for many Northern areas too)
Always talks about moving the line in land but always excuses
Mean while we carry on crunching carrots 
Always talks about moving the line in land but always excuses
Mean while we carry on crunching carrots Re: HS2
That`s the thing exactly! At 100Bn that`s about £5000 from every household in Britain just so a few people can get to London 20 minutes quicker! Yet people trying to get to work here up North can`t get seats, assuming a train even turns up. By tyhe time this will be done (as no doubt there will be `slippage` with that too) all business will be done through the net, Skype etc, anyway - people won`t be needing to go to London for their big business meetings. I wish I could be God for a day!
