Don't most big projects like this end up costing 5 times more than what they expected ?
So maybe £500 billion ?
Any examples where this has been the case?
Yes there's often over spend, but 5x must be fairly rare and certainly not most.
Don't most big projects like this end up costing 5 times more than what they expected ?
So maybe £500 billion ?
As we're making up wild assumptions with no evidence, I'd also like to suggest small project have the biggest percentage overruns than large ones. Thus reallocating the HS2 budget to lots of little upgrades as a few are obsessive to do would incur greater cost overruns.Don't most big projects like this end up costing 5 times more than what they expected ?
So maybe £500 billion ?
But why should it be more expensive?
BBC said:The government is launching a review of high-speed rail link HS2 - with a “go or no-go" decision to be made by the end of the year, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said.
The review will consider whether and how the project should proceed, taking into account benefits, affordability and deliverability.
A final report will be sent to the government in the autumn.
Mr Shapps refused to rule out scrapping the project entirely.
When asked about the £7bn already spent on HS2, he said: "Just because you've spent a lot of money on something does not mean you should plough more and more money into it."
If it’s as radical as the Williams review it may recommend different portaloos on the construction sites, and little elseAs I predicted earlier in this thread.
If it’s as radical as the Williams review it may recommend different portaloos on the construction sites, and little else
At first read, I thought you said it would recommend different potatoes on the construction sites...If it’s as radical as the Williams review it may recommend different portaloos on the construction sites, and little else
If the review finds that the case for it is still valid, which is just as likely (if not more so), then cancelling it anyway will stink to high heaven.Shapps is right to point out that you shouldn't just keep spending money for the sake of it. If the review finds that it's no longer financially viable, the government will have to act.
...with a “go or no-go" decision to be made by the end of the year...
It will be in the scope of this review to allow Euston/Camden to have works there complete while HS2 itself is scrapped.There's already been a "go" decision. This just makes it sound like HS2 is still in the planning, design and consent stages rather than a project that's being built right now. By the end of the year ever more real, physical work will have been done.
It will be in the scope of this review to allow Euston/Camden to have works there complete while HS2 itself is scrapped.
There's already been a "go" decision. This just makes it sound like HS2 is still in the planning, design and consent stages rather than a project that's being built right now. By the end of the year ever more real, physical work will have been done.
Greater capacity into Euston and connected works will benefit the immediate area.In the absence of HS2, what would be the point?
What extra capacity? More platforms doesnt allow you to run extra trains on the tracks that are already full.Greater capacity into Euston and connected works will benefit the immediate area.
Greater capacity into Euston and connected works will benefit the immediate area.
A lot of people have politicized HS2. I've even seen the Scottish independence debate brought into it. I'm actually for HS2, but there are other Scots angry about it because they don't think Scottish taxpayers should be funding it all. I think it will benefit Scotland though, as high speed rail will eventually be extended further north. Some people don't see the long-term benefits.
It also sees speed improvements for those traveling to London and Birmingham (the latter is true after Western Arm is complete).
Glasgow to:
- Birmingham, HS2 time 200 minutes, current time 242 minutes (4:02 falling to 3:20)
- London, HS2 time 220 minutes, current time 270 minutes (4:30 falling to 3:40)
Don't most big projects like this end up costing 5 times more than what they expected ?
It will be in the scope of this review to allow Euston/Camden to have works there complete while HS2 itself is scrapped.
A very expensive way of annoying Bo Jo's dad who lives very near by?You seem to have an affection for the Euston/Camden works.
What purpose would they serve if HS2 was scrapped?
Will HS2 have fast services transferred over to it which currently run fast along most of the south WCML??
I know its meant to have it own services with new trains and all but nothing capacity wise is going to change on the WCML if HS2 will only add more trains on to it?
Would someone mind clarifying?