HS2 - Birmingham to Manchester scrapped.

[MikeF]

Should rename it HS1.5

This country is a fucking joke. How many years have been wasted by dillying n dallying?

 

[Bluemanc100]

Yes he did, as did the other residents on the estate
I think he moved to Didsbury

Poor Didsbury

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The UK is basically at the point it can’t build a few hundred fucking miles of railway line, embarrassing.

This sums the whole sorry situation up in a sentence. We have become a fucking joke of a country.

 

[dickie davies]

This sums the whole sorry situation up in a sentence. We have become a fucking joke of a country.

It really isn't that simple is it!
Just look at the final few miles at either end

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It really isn't that simple is it!
Just look at the final few miles at either end

Imagine if Isambard Kingdom Brunel had harboured that attitude.

 

[dickie davies]

Imagine if Isambard Kingdom Brunel had harboured that attitude.

the Victorians didn’t give a shit about anything, It was their way or no way. They’d bulldoze straigh through the middle of an eighth century castle if it was the most direct route. But the country was totally different, in both population and transportation

 

[blueinsa]

It really isn't that simple is it!
Just look at the final few miles at either end

Yep, it stops the rest of the world building transport infrastructure for sure, the fact it has to join up major conurbations…

 

[MCFC Wirral]

I use the trains regularly and they’re always being delayed or cancelled.

Liverpool to Swansea was nearly six hours and two changes.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

the Victorians didn’t give a shit about anything, It was their way or no way. They’d bulldoze straigh through the middle of an eighth century castle if it was the most direct route. But the country was totally different, in both population and transportation

If we can do cross rail, we can do HS2.

 

[dickie davies]

If we can do cross rail, we can do HS2.

Two massively different projects