The structure being built at 4:05. It looks very complicated. Is that the early stages of a tunnel that they are building that will be jacked under the A46?
because everyone on this job is taking thier sweet time - it's better paying than similar jobs elsewhere so they're hanging it out for as long as possible. also, it's the public purse so there's a bottomless pit of money they can take the piss endlessly.
All this to put two rail tracks down and one train every half hour with NO FREIGHT and ticket prices most could not afford to clip an hour off current journey times? And, the cost? Started at £36 BILLION and is now well over £150 BILLION and rising. When will it have its first train? Whenever it seems, no one seems to know exactly. The original timing was to be 2017 to 2026 with every modern piece of equipment to achieve this. The London to Birmingham Railway was built in the mid 1800's by 20,000 men, shovels, barrows, mostly mules and horse drawn wagons, took just 5years to build. It cost £5.5 MILLION raised by PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FINANCE and took passengers and freight. This HS2 is a flagrant waste of TAXPAYER's money.
The structure being built at 4:05. It looks very complicated. Is that the early stages of a tunnel that they are building that will be jacked under the A46?
A Bridge, yes it is.
Why is it going to take other 10 years before we can use this railway then
because everyone on this job is taking thier sweet time - it's better paying than similar jobs elsewhere so they're hanging it out for as long as possible. also, it's the public purse so there's a bottomless pit of money they can take the piss endlessly.
Look to France
All this to put two rail tracks down and one train every half hour with NO FREIGHT and ticket prices most could not afford to clip an hour off current journey times? And, the cost? Started at £36 BILLION and is now well over £150 BILLION and rising.
When will it have its first train? Whenever it seems, no one seems to know exactly. The original timing was to be 2017 to 2026 with every modern piece of equipment to achieve this.
The London to Birmingham Railway was built in the mid 1800's by 20,000 men, shovels, barrows, mostly mules and horse drawn wagons, took just 5years to build. It cost £5.5 MILLION raised by PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FINANCE and took passengers and freight.
This HS2 is a flagrant waste of TAXPAYER's money.
Total waste of tax payers money !!