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21 Aug 2019
This is from 2017. We've done 3 reports on the "challenging" geology #HS2 route through Mid Cheshire. Expert work by geologists internal and external.
It's why the M6 avoided this area (notice how it bends?) not ok for 70mph motorway but 250mph train?
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MCheshireAgainstHS2 retweeted
A final business case tells the public whether a project actually makes economic sense.
Starting construction without one is not ‘cutting red tape’, it is being reckless with public money.
Construction has started on the Lower Thames Crossing without one – just like with HS2!
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Jun 1
Arup are also the driving force behind the deplorable 'HS2 phase 2a Lite' reboot and the #NorthernPowerhouseRail scam, both backed by #uklabour #hs2 railnews.co.uk/news/general/…
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Jun 1
Clickbait video about the 'M40 route for #HS2' says it's the "proposition put forward by some opponents of HS2".
But it was actually 'put forward' by er, The Labour Party, and engineering consultancy Arup.
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Jun 1
If the 'current' costs of #HS2 were known at the time of Notice to Proceed (15 April 2020) its benefit cost ratio would be 'between 0.3 and 0.4' according to the Department for Transport
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"vested interests are bad apparently. Unless they are doing an HS2 lite review
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May 27
I thought Labour had HS2 spending under control now?
#HS2 paid consultancies £65mn last year in run-up to project ‘reset’ ft.com/content/b8c90e6e-6509… via @ft
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May 22
#HS2 is the wildest white elephant in British history. Please put it out of its misery | Simon Jenkins theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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May 22
#NetworkRail and train operators said #hs2 was needed becuz of the 'looming West Coast Main Line capacity problem in the mid 2020s', but ended up with a very different *excess_capacity* problem. #HypeVersusReality #TalkinBollox #gbrail
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MCheshireAgainstHS2 retweeted
Adonis was a historian. The HS2 Technical Director didn't understand basic maths or physics. Civil servants place value on unnoticeable time savings & ignore the environment. Lobbyists lobby. Wrong decisions get made. No-one wants to say they got it wrong. £100bn wasted.
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MCheshireAgainstHS2 retweeted
Superb piss take - although some it is actually true 😮
Check out comedywithjk's video! #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNRnF3RUA/
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May 20
"We have a Budget of 28 billion to build HS2 we are not interested in spending the 14 billion contingency" Andrew McNaughton HS2 Technical director 2014
That was Full #HS2 to Leeds and Manchester with all tbe mitigation tunnels
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May 20
Using tbe BoE inflation calculator, and assuming they did spend all the contingency in 2025 prices #HS2 should still be under 30 billion. Something smells rotten
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May 20
Perhaps factor in construction inflation which has been higher of late. Only an extra 5 billion found.
Where has 60 billion vanished?
#HS2
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MCheshireAgainstHS2 retweeted
May 20
(4) HS2 also shows precisely where build baby build politics leads – lots of money for lucky companies & their lobbyists, long term costs for the public.
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May 20
(2) It’s the machismo ‘build baby build’ mentality that got HS2 into its multi-billion mess. Here are The Wildlife Trusts in 2013 advocating for a lower speed route, not requiring a straight line:
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