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Money well spent?

(4 Posts)
Sarnia Tue 19-May-26 13:47:24

HS2 now to cost almost £103b with the first train possibly due around 2036 and the whole fiasco finished around 2039. What do our GN's think of it all, especially those up North?

Casdon Tue 19-May-26 13:53:29

What I think is that you’ve given away what you think already by using the word fiasco?

Granatlast007 Tue 19-May-26 14:08:11

I know how much I will sigh when I go to France later this year as I did when in Spain last year.

Such a mess, not the only one, shameful.

M0nica Tue 19-May-26 14:29:56

I have a solution (tongue in cheek). I live near The Black Cat Roundabout on the A1 near St Neots. It is the biggest road project in the Uk at the moment and is expected to cost £1billion.

It is on time and in budget.

I propose that when the BCR is complete, they sack everyone working on HS2, including the office boy and the cat and appoint the Black Cat team (including office boy and cat) to take over and complete it. They will get it finished in under 5 years.

OK HS2 is bigger that the huge BCR project, but HS2 is a monumental waste of money, a David Cameron vanity project, and needs to be contained and brought to heel as soon as possible. The money set aside for HS2 should be spent on improving the rest of the raail network.