fishwomp
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Remember those opposed to HS2 don't seem to bother with checking facts, and particularly on costs tend to just make up numbers
See: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/mar/11/adonis-high-speed-rail-blueprint
"The first phase will cost up to £17.4bn for 128 miles of track from London to the west Midlands [with the full 330-mile network costing £30bn]." Those were 2010 costs.. but £50 or 100bn it was not..
To be fair, the actual HS2 cost 'facts' have continuously been revised upwards since day 1: by now the optimists have overtaken the earlier estimates of pessimists..