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Parts of HS2 (the northern bits) won’t ever be built. From where I’m sitting in York, it already looks like a failure.
by danw1979 4y ago
Parts of HS2 (the northern bits) won’t ever be built. From where I’m sitting in York, it already looks like a failure.
- Symbiote 4y agoThat isn't a failure of the planning system, or from interference from environmentalists. It's a failure of government and the British democracy.
- lambdadmitry 4y agoIt's both. Look up council complaints and demands for the HS2, they're full of unreasonable NIMBY stuff like asking for the line to be put in a tunnel because it comes closer than 100m to an industrial estate. They didn't get it of course, but as a "compromise" they got high berms after a lengthy consultation/bargaining, both of which inflate the cost.