The only possible benefit of all this dis-integration between projects might be that if they are hacked then it might "only" get a sub-set of our worldy data. God save us. It's a tiny win in a big dirty pond of waste and risk.
The real driver for maintaining the "silo" approach is to protect the legions of IT people and consultants supporting the silos. Jobs for the modern day "Jobsworths".
HS2 should have taken the Great Central Line out of London from Marylebone to Sheffield and Manchester.
Built as 4 track high speed route and to a European Loading gauge it would have been perfect for High Speed Trains. The line avoided Birmingham....and using it would rather destroy the GCR Heritage line. An acceptable loss, in my view!
