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£124billion - an International Space Station.
£118billion - an Apollo programme with 6 human explorations of the Lunar surface.
£106billion (at time of writing) - a new train.
£118billion - an Apollo programme with 6 human explorations of the Lunar surface.
£106billion (at time of writing) - a new train.
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Its all about the Birmingham Experience a few Minutes quicker . A straight through train would be favourable Imvho.
For that sort of money I would expect the train to move at several thousand of miles an hour!
106 billion?
If they just didn't do anything ..... and shared it out amongst the population of the UK. We'd all get nearly £1,700 .
That's for every man, woman and child (if my maths are right)
If they just didn't do anything ..... and shared it out amongst the population of the UK. We'd all get nearly £1,700 .
That's for every man, woman and child (if my maths are right)
Wouldn't bank on it only being 106 billion either..
They could cut those costs by 50% with the stroke of a pen.
Everybody knows that London is the greatest city on earth and the desire to get there quickly is patently obvious. But is it really necessary to get to the Midlands/Northern shanty towns in such a hurry? It's not as if there's anything to do there. Apart from being unemployed of course. So just make the southerly route into the Capital superfast and the northbound one slow-as-you-like.
Everybody knows that London is the greatest city on earth and the desire to get there quickly is patently obvious. But is it really necessary to get to the Midlands/Northern shanty towns in such a hurry? It's not as if there's anything to do there. Apart from being unemployed of course. So just make the southerly route into the Capital superfast and the northbound one slow-as-you-like.
It's more to do with capacity than speed.
The new line will reduce the number of express trains n the other routes, and make way for more stopping trains along the way.
This is the problem with immigration, suddenly we need more capacity for everything.
And just one of the financial costs of the ridiculous high levels of immigration we've had to this country.
The new line will reduce the number of express trains n the other routes, and make way for more stopping trains along the way.
This is the problem with immigration, suddenly we need more capacity for everything.
And just one of the financial costs of the ridiculous high levels of immigration we've had to this country.
HS2 is as much about increasing capacity as it is about reducing travelling times
Decades of under investment have brought us to a situation where 21st century travel needs are being served by 19th century infrastructure.
Thus, the concern shouldn’t be the cost of HS2, it should be when does planning for HS3 and HS4 begin.
Decades of under investment have brought us to a situation where 21st century travel needs are being served by 19th century infrastructure.
Thus, the concern shouldn’t be the cost of HS2, it should be when does planning for HS3 and HS4 begin.
""Everybody knows that London is the greatest city on earth""
Seriously, why would anybody be in a hurry to get to Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester etc.? Rather like turkeys voting for Christmas.
Main problem is that it has taken us so long to do it.
The longer it was left the greater the cost as it had to be built around the ever increasing, existing stuff.
We are living off the labours of the victorians and successive generations in terms of infrastructure. Railway lines, water mains, sewers, roads etc.
All governments have failed to invest themselves and/or hoped that privatisation would solve all the problems.
The longer it was left the greater the cost as it had to be built around the ever increasing, existing stuff.
We are living off the labours of the victorians and successive generations in terms of infrastructure. Railway lines, water mains, sewers, roads etc.
All governments have failed to invest themselves and/or hoped that privatisation would solve all the problems.
Building it will be relatively cheap. Running it and maintaining it will cost far more over the following 20 years. I would expect at least 70% of the fare to come from the taxpayer and even then it will lose money. Only last week, an Italian company foolish enough to buy a rail franchise is handing it back as they have lost £20 million in a year. Rail is becoming almost as big a money pit as the NHS.
How many seats per train? How many people will wish to travel in 20 years time?
Do people travel less today than they did twenty years ago?
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