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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... 13:15 - Jan 10 with 3535 viewsElderGrizzly

Estimate when it was approved was £19bn (in 2013)
Current estimate is £66bn

Someone, assuming with links to the Tory party, is getting very rich...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/10/hs2-cost-of-london-birmingham-li
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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:17 - Jan 10 with 3502 viewsKeno

well with the financial responsible Tories managing our economy that cant be down to a spike in inflation ...... oh .....

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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:19 - Jan 10 with 3484 viewsElderGrizzly

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:17 - Jan 10 by Keno

well with the financial responsible Tories managing our economy that cant be down to a spike in inflation ...... oh .....


There's inflation and then there is 'inflation'
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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:24 - Jan 10 with 3434 viewsNthQldITFC

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:17 - Jan 10 by Keno

well with the financial responsible Tories managing our economy that cant be down to a spike in inflation ...... oh .....


More shameless pillaging of the United Kingdom by the C*nservative Party and their sty-mates.

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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:31 - Jan 10 with 3398 viewsKeno

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:19 - Jan 10 by ElderGrizzly

There's inflation and then there is 'inflation'


indeed!!!

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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:38 - Jan 10 with 3369 viewsElderGrizzly

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:24 - Jan 10 by NthQldITFC

More shameless pillaging of the United Kingdom by the C*nservative Party and their sty-mates.


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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:38 - Jan 10 with 3368 viewsleitrimblue

Not just people with links to the Tory party, Irish Archaeological Consultancies have made an absolute fortune.
God bless the incompetence of the Torys
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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 14:26 - Jan 10 with 3235 viewsKeno

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:38 - Jan 10 by leitrimblue

Not just people with links to the Tory party, Irish Archaeological Consultancies have made an absolute fortune.
God bless the incompetence of the Torys


I didnt realise HS2 was going through Ireland

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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 14:29 - Jan 10 with 3216 viewsEwan_Oozami

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 14:26 - Jan 10 by Keno

I didnt realise HS2 was going through Ireland


That's incompetence for you....

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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 14:30 - Jan 10 with 3214 viewsleitrimblue

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 14:26 - Jan 10 by Keno

I didnt realise HS2 was going through Ireland


It's so badly designed that it vears off to the West just South of Birmingham and ends up clipping Wicklow, the West of Dublin and Drogheda before heading back under the sea into UK. Its a serious tunnel
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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 14:32 - Jan 10 with 3201 viewsPinewoodblue

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:19 - Jan 10 by ElderGrizzly

There's inflation and then there is 'inflation'


In many cases inflation plus a percentage. For example +3.9% on your mobile phone tarrif, or cable/ satellite services. All of course with government approval. Perhaps that will be something that gets changed after the next election but somehow I doubt it.

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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 14:46 - Jan 10 with 3168 viewsKeno

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 14:30 - Jan 10 by leitrimblue

It's so badly designed that it vears off to the West just South of Birmingham and ends up clipping Wicklow, the West of Dublin and Drogheda before heading back under the sea into UK. Its a serious tunnel


Im sure my mate Mick would have been happy to help with that, he would have given a reasonable quote and probably dont any tarmac work for free.

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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 15:20 - Jan 10 with 3116 viewsElderGrizzly

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 14:46 - Jan 10 by Keno

Im sure my mate Mick would have been happy to help with that, he would have given a reasonable quote and probably dont any tarmac work for free.


It’s not quite the same scale, but locally they are spending £6.8m putting in 4 traffic lights and a bit of resurfacing of a junction.

Someone somewhere is making an awful lot of money

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/work-finally-set-begin-68millio
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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 16:28 - Jan 10 with 3050 viewsEireannach_gorm

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 13:38 - Jan 10 by leitrimblue

Not just people with links to the Tory party, Irish Archaeological Consultancies have made an absolute fortune.
God bless the incompetence of the Torys


..... its an ill wind .....


Will it be going through any other counties other than Leitrim?

Sorry just spotted the Irish bit of the route. Would be of great benefit to my commute but I will be retiring in a year's time. My grandchild will appreciate it however.
[Post edited 10 Jan 2024 16:35]
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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 16:36 - Jan 10 with 3020 viewsblueasfook

There ought to be a national enquiry into this huge waste of public money. We are now paying 3 x the original estimate for half the service promised.

Absolute shambles.

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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 16:55 - Jan 10 with 2963 viewsleitrimblue

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 16:28 - Jan 10 by Eireannach_gorm

..... its an ill wind .....


Will it be going through any other counties other than Leitrim?

Sorry just spotted the Irish bit of the route. Would be of great benefit to my commute but I will be retiring in a year's time. My grandchild will appreciate it however.
[Post edited 10 Jan 2024 16:35]


Unfortunately this stage doesn't reach Leitrim, but who knows what stage 2 may deliver...
At least it will help the grandkids out
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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 20:47 - Jan 10 with 2837 viewsbrazil1982

Breaking and cancellation of contracts, cost of materials, interest rates. As I've mentioned before my Partner was working on some of this. She reckons the whole thing will be cancelled this year.
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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 15:14 - Jan 12 with 2565 viewscooperd5

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 20:47 - Jan 10 by brazil1982

Breaking and cancellation of contracts, cost of materials, interest rates. As I've mentioned before my Partner was working on some of this. She reckons the whole thing will be cancelled this year.


It's typical tory mismanagement. Spend all the money (and then some!) on the South bit and pull the plug on it.
They should have started in the North and worked South.
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HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 15:29 - Jan 12 with 2540 viewsgiant_stow

HS2 - the cost has gone up again... on 15:20 - Jan 10 by ElderGrizzly

It’s not quite the same scale, but locally they are spending £6.8m putting in 4 traffic lights and a bit of resurfacing of a junction.

Someone somewhere is making an awful lot of money

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/work-finally-set-begin-68millio


I know nothing about any of this, but it seems like any public construction project costs the earth, but only in this country. Are people in that industry just really well paid or something?

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