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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- A birds eye view of HS2 construction progress between the A43 at Brackley to just beyond Thorpe Mandeville, during October 2022.
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No sign of any work being done, those tipper lorries don’t appear to have move for month, I go past them regularly near Greatworth
No need to rush, when you can milk the taxpayer, and drag out construction ;). Although, I drove through Greatworth the other day, and was staggered I saw them working. I even had to give way to a large truck at the temporary traffic lights!
Once again I am staggered at the amount of land taken for building the line that is, when completed, about half the width of a 6-lane motorway ! Of course most of this will revert to farm land or plantation to compensate for its loss elsewhere. They don't bother doing this eco-compensation anywhere else in the world, BTW. This goes some way to explaining why HS2 is costing so much.
I have fears that the "returned to conservation" areas will just become wasteland, in the same way as other unused railway owned land has, filled with old discarded equipment and rubble, then let the brambles hide it.
As for cost, it was always going to cost £100b to get it from London to Birmingham. You can't buy prime real estate in London, the Chilterns, Oxfordshire and near Birmingham at market rates and it not cost horrific amounts of money. Then, add to that, the utter incompetence of the construction...
@@theboy-uk Here are the final Plan and Profile maps that show what should be there after construction: -
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/529519/C222-ATK-CV-DPP-020-000012-FPD.pdf
and
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/529520/C222-ATK-CV-DPP-020-000013-FPD.pdf
It doesn't look too bad, to be honest. I see there is a cut-and-cover tunnel at Greatworth which I wasn't aware of. (usual nonsense calls it a "Green" tunnel
@@frasermitchell9183 The green tunnel at Greatworth was an early modification to the original plan (it was originally just a cutting) as it was shown that the noise would have disproportionally affected that side of the village.
I'm not convinced that they will spend any money on the post construction clean up, in the same way housing developers never get around to building the promised extra infrastructure due to there being so many loopholes. In the case of HS2, when they go cap in hand to the taxpayer to fund it, there will be a huge queue of more needy causes needing the money in front of HS2's tidy up plan.
@@theboy-uk Take comfort from the remediation around HS1 (the Channel Tunnel rail link), where the compounds and soil piles are all, now, back to productive farmland.
@@mikehindson-evans159 None of the compulsory purchased excessive land for HS2's construction is being returned to farmers. So it will be down to HS2 to "maintain" it, and money to do that was not in the business plans.
It looks to me that vast amounts of money has been spent on building access roads, for what ? just more access roads ??? Somebody needs to get a grip on this lot !!
You're not wrong! I shall shortly be publishing the same route, but taken 10 months later in late August 2023, and then you can play spot the difference!
Interesting to see not one person or machine working on the whole site? Did you do this at some odd time of day ?
This was filmed during the warm dry weather in October, on a Saturday about mid morning.
@UCEAXR8urHxJbiuAThqN0N-Q Sounds about right, the HS2 workforce sitting down for Christmas in October!
During the hearing of petitions against various aspects of HS2 Phase 1, it was pointed out by the HS2 reps that construction would be Mon-Friday only unless there were exceptional circumstances.
@@frasermitchell9183 The roadshows I attended suggested they would be working 7 days a week in order to reduce disruption, and with road closures only over weekends to minimise (pre pandemic) commute disruption. But, then, one of the roadshow hosts, employed by network rail, did tell me, after I'd pointed out all the inconsistencies in their plan, that he was just towing the company line, as he was going to get a senior role in HS2 Ltd.
@@theboy-uk The line is crossing about a mile from my current abode. They appear to be working a five day week. With the very occasional Saturday working.
Great flight, is there any "Progress" actually being made? Wonder what the estimated finish date is, another 20 years perhaps, with someone getting very rich from it.
Not much progress, given the amount of time they have been working on it. But why rush when its the taxpayer stumping the cost?
A lot of the progress at the moment is underground (tunnelling), building the crossover box at Euston Station, the Colne Valley viaduct, etc.
@@stephengentle2815 Which shows the poor planning and mismanagement, as they started work just about everywhere at the same time, to the point they are having to redo a lot of the groundworks as it got left in an incomplete state. And probably will do again.
Can one see this construction ground works from space?
Its enormous, isn't it.
When the M40 was being cut through the Chilterns and the chalk was fresh, it could be seen from Earth orbit. Given a low enough orbit, no doubt HS2 cuts can be seen...
@@GluteMaximuz Wow, were 1960s satellites that good? HS2's path of destruction is far wider though, and for significantly longer than about a mile ;)
Huge construction! And no water...
And little progress!
@@theboy-uk The power of public money 😁
@@robodrone5662 Is it as bad in your country?
@@theboy-uk I suppose everywhere it is typical. Of course there are procedures and law regulations. Finally we bought the most expensive product which is poor as hell 😁😉🤣🤣
@@robodrone5662 LOL, it all sounds familiar :)
> £100bn for a 3rd mainline track between London and Birmingham, and that is going to cost £8bn a year, just to service the debt on, for a generation, whether any services ever run along it, which given:
"Regarding the number of passengers that are forecast to transfer to HS2, a figure for the daily sum of one-way journeys between Central London and Birmingham for 2037/38 was included in the HS2 PFM v7.1 Forecasting Report published by HS2 Ltd and used to support the 2017 Business Case. This figure - 15,429 - represents the total sum starting or finishing at both of the locations, so halving produces a reasonable approximation of assumed one way flow."
From: Current passenger numbers from Birmingham to London on West Coast mainline and expected numbers on HS2 , Ref: P0018587
Is unlikely, as splitting the approximate £8bn debt servicing, and £2bn running costs would see a day return ticket coming in at just over £3,500. A figure that will likely deter the many of the 15,429 pre-pandemic, working form home, potential passengers, booking a seat.
It never made any finical sense, and the existing 2 lines are nowhere even close to approaching capacity. The running costs alone mean it cannot survive in its proposed form, so will likely close or be radically different (ie, just another commuter line serving an already well served area into London). A colossal waste of valuable, scarce taxpayer money.
They are not trying hard enough there are lots of trees and green stuff still there.
I'm sure they can find the time to do a complete job whilst they string this project out...