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high speed rail go brrr (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ain't that the truth. The UKs HS2 project has just collapsed. Was supposed to a big Y shaped "network" linking London (and Europe) to Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and a laughably out the way part of the East Midlands, with a new high capacity rail link.

Now it's been whittled away to just "I suppose we can link London to Birmingham then", and only then because they'd already started work on it.

I always suspected the second part would be cancelled because we never do anything that might benefit the North.

Got to be honest, after 3 years of working from home, I'd rather have faster internet than faster trains. Shame there's no timetable for that either...

[–] MrFlamey 10 points 1 year ago

I bet they managed to spend all the money that was allotted despite not actually getting anything much built though. They are fucking pros at "spending" money on stuff that either never materialises, or ends up requiring double the amount of money initially quoted to actually end up in a finished state. There should be so many more investigations into where all the public money is going in these kinds of situations.