The cost of finishing HS2 between Birmingham Curzon Street and Old Oak Common has soared to £81 billion (at 2019 prices). And the work will not be completed until 2036 at the earliest, with 2039 more likely.
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andreos - 15/05/2025 12:40
1. Stop all work on HS2 and mothball all construction sites. 2. Close down HS2 Ltd and its many contractors. 3. DfT to demonstrate how the £36bn is saved. 4. Cancel the order for HS2 trains. 5. Set up a new development company to re-engineer the parts of HS2 between Birmingham and Old Oak Common for lower cost, conventional speeds and connections to other rail lines. 6. Put an early deadline on private sector commitments to build the tunnels from OOC and the HS2 station at Euston. Otherwise, cancel this part, make OOC the terminus of this small new line, save another £15bn and hand the sites to Network Rail.
@Steeple12 - 17/05/2025 15:44
HS2 is now a construction project which was orginally conceived as a railway. A Concorde on rails and sadly we know the history of that . Instead of building a "boring" 747 which carried passengers , we had the glitz and now we have a great piece of engineering which is more likely to be a tourism attraction for rail geeks than a useful transport system