The amount of money wasted because people can’t decide what they want on large infrastructure projects is unreal. They can spend a small fortune getting projects to GRIP5/ES5 only for them to be paused, rebid and then go through another detailed design phase or even the requirements completely changed going right back to concept design.announcing this is the only outcome that will make me satisfied. the north desperately needs it - what it can't be is simply an upgrading of the existing line, that isnt good enough.
i've been in the rail engineering industry for 12 years and upgrading the transpennine line was one of the first projects i worked on and it's gone practically nowhere since! i've been on HS2 phase 1 for about 4 years now and our company has spent many thousands (and me many hours) bidding for parts of phase 2. disappointing to see it go but hardly surprised.
Yeah £31 singleICE ICE baby?
London always gets stuff.Crossrail 2 will be the next major infrastructure project.
Seems quite reasonable when you consider that you’re travelling 50 years back in time.Liverpool / Chester to Cardiff next Sunday looks interesting… North Walians need to go via Shrewsbury which, when I last looked, was in England.
I like to get to Swansea twice a year but the train journey is over five hours.
A generational opportunity to upgrade our transport infrastructure and the Tories absolutely fluff it. What are they waiting to happen instead which is a better alternative, hyper loops or teleportation devices?
If I had a Christmas card list then I’d strongly consider taking you off it for that crass comment about super Swansea.Seems quite reasonable when you consider that you’re travelling 50 years back in time.