Does anyone think the outturn cost will be less than £100bn or that it will be completed fewer than 10 years late?
Does anyone thing it is sense to spend that much on an aspect of our transport that accounts for maybe 5% of the total? Without HS2 the government already spends 3 times as much subsidising rail as it spends on the roads that take 90% of our traffic. Does anythone not think this is unconnected with the traffic jams, potholes, congestion?
Railways are a Victorian system that only really works well for commuters into big cities. For the rest of us, we have to drive to the station find somewhere to park take the train which costs more than the car and takes us to somewhere we dont want to be, after which we agantake to the roads to get to our destination.
For the cost of HS2 we could build 7000 miles of motorway
