They maybe stopped for now, but extras lines are needed all the way to Scotland
aredddit on
£37m is just a rounding error on the money wasted on HS2.
InformationNew66 on
It’s pennies compared to defense corruption money.
“The UK’s defense budget for the 2025-26 financial year is set to be around £62.2 billion, a rise from £60.2 billion in 2024-25, with plans to reach 2.6% of GDP by 2027”
brightdionysianeyes on
Why on earth would we ever need land that runs between stations in a straight line? Don’t they know HS2 is the only railway we’re going to build forever?
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candidate881255 on
Hope Starmer does commit on finishing the line to Manchester and the East Midlands Hub. Otherwise we’ll be yet again making the same big infrastructure mistakes of standing everyone down after the project completes thereby wasting billions in expertise, engineer training & career pipelines – before again acting shocked in 20 years time when the next big project again struggles because all the skills & experienced professionals have been lost (yet again).
Nuclear has also spent the past decade having to rebuild expertise too. It’s not even specifically expertise on how to build a reactor or high speed track, it’s the 1000 constituent parts of big engineering – ground work, types of welding, planning legalities (such as in this article), equipment design & procurement. So many skills, and potential export industries, set to be lost and wasted (yet again).
Salty-Bid1597 on
I have heard some absolutely batshit stuff about HS2 via the construction industry.
The size of the gravy train will dwarf any economic benefit from the real trains.
eldomtom2 on
For those who didn’t read the article this seems to be a case of the process of buying the properties in question starting before the cancellation and HS2 not being able to easily back out.
Soggy_Cabbage on
£37m spent to forcibly take peoples homes. You just watch it now all those properties on the axed routes will be sold off on the cheap to the chums of MPs.
UnalomeJourneying on
I worked some temp work last year in a consulting firm, I was getting a coffee and heard a guy bragging in the canteen kind of area about working on the HS2 to some woman. Kept kind of being insistent, like it was super impressive. The girl did not seem interested at all lol
Expensive_Peace8153 on
>”HS2 Ltd not only forced people to sell up, but also due to the capital gains tax they had to pay, many of those people cannot be able to afford to buy their own homes and land back.”
That’s BS written to gain a sympathy vote. You don’t pay capital gains tax on the sale of your primary residence. So that issue can only apply to people in situations which are mostly rich people situations like owning a second home, landlording, living abroad, etc.
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They maybe stopped for now, but extras lines are needed all the way to Scotland
£37m is just a rounding error on the money wasted on HS2.
It’s pennies compared to defense corruption money.
“The UK’s defense budget for the 2025-26 financial year is set to be around £62.2 billion, a rise from £60.2 billion in 2024-25, with plans to reach 2.6% of GDP by 2027”
Why on earth would we ever need land that runs between stations in a straight line? Don’t they know HS2 is the only railway we’re going to build forever?
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Hope Starmer does commit on finishing the line to Manchester and the East Midlands Hub. Otherwise we’ll be yet again making the same big infrastructure mistakes of standing everyone down after the project completes thereby wasting billions in expertise, engineer training & career pipelines – before again acting shocked in 20 years time when the next big project again struggles because all the skills & experienced professionals have been lost (yet again).
Nuclear has also spent the past decade having to rebuild expertise too. It’s not even specifically expertise on how to build a reactor or high speed track, it’s the 1000 constituent parts of big engineering – ground work, types of welding, planning legalities (such as in this article), equipment design & procurement. So many skills, and potential export industries, set to be lost and wasted (yet again).
I have heard some absolutely batshit stuff about HS2 via the construction industry.
The size of the gravy train will dwarf any economic benefit from the real trains.
For those who didn’t read the article this seems to be a case of the process of buying the properties in question starting before the cancellation and HS2 not being able to easily back out.
£37m spent to forcibly take peoples homes. You just watch it now all those properties on the axed routes will be sold off on the cheap to the chums of MPs.
I worked some temp work last year in a consulting firm, I was getting a coffee and heard a guy bragging in the canteen kind of area about working on the HS2 to some woman. Kept kind of being insistent, like it was super impressive. The girl did not seem interested at all lol
>”HS2 Ltd not only forced people to sell up, but also due to the capital gains tax they had to pay, many of those people cannot be able to afford to buy their own homes and land back.”
That’s BS written to gain a sympathy vote. You don’t pay capital gains tax on the sale of your primary residence. So that issue can only apply to people in situations which are mostly rich people situations like owning a second home, landlording, living abroad, etc.
We should have just built it all and HS3 too
But treasury brain strikes again