We are all heading for the coffin in that case, Electric Spine is hardly an old project!
Only to an extent, and you still have the underlying issue of the infrastructure works.
Wouldn't be any quicker, only solves Birmingham, not further north and Marylebone can't handle the trains. Same as when everyone with rose tinted glasses said to reopen the Great Central as a solution.
The problem, to me, is that the HS2 scheme only really delivers it's major benefits if all the phases are built.
Bath also has a ruling about the skyline as viewed from Royal Crescent, I believe.
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At least when viewed from a ground level is not as restrictive as the reverse. Like the view in the Haywain discussed on the topic of Constable. In the case of St Paul's the rule is not that you should not see any buildings sticking up above the roof of St Pauls when viewing it from the area around St Pauls.
I'm always astonished at how much the Dutch railways has changed in the last 30 years. Numerous four tracking, flyovers and diveunders. Work is still ongoing, e.g. Delft. We need more projects like Reading.
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Which schemes are advanced enough to qualify as "scrapped" if the worst happens? Ashington is due to open this year, after that Camp Hill presumably, where the new stations are under construction. How far advanced is Southampton - Fawley, the Waterside line? Portishead appears not that far down the road to getting spades in the ground and Tavistock isn't really anywhere. unless developers pay for the whole lot.
Perhaps they could focus on maintaining the network that already exists.
Typical price of everything and value of nothing mentality. That would have meant no special treatment when putting overhead power supply into the Bath section of the GWML for example. Similarly if they electrify Settle to Carlisle.
It doesn't exist until the borrowing is created to fund CapEx by HMT. The are interim stage to allocating future funding.
Not without a major redesign. HS2 at Old Oak is 20m below ground level, you'd have to find a way of connecting that to the GWML.
Agreed. See also Heathrow third runway. Virtually all of those in favour live outside of London and really don't care as long as they benefit.
It's nothing to do with the residents of Primrose Hill, it's to do with the view from the landmark hill called Primrose Hill, loved by thousands and thousands of people who visit it.
The Sunak promises after the HS2 cancellation were written on the back of a fag packet. I don't think anyone took them seriously.
Exactly. One of the reasons I love London. Turning into a clone of Manhattan (or even Manchester) isn't going to help.
There won't be much money to be made from this.
I doubt it, given the very low height limits placed on the Euston site to protect various sightlines to St Pauls.
Nothing has just been ‘discovered’. This black hole was known about before the election but the parties, including Labour, chose to ignore it. Of course, it now gives the new government a ready made excuse to cut things and blame their predecessors.
The idea of free childcare is it's supposed to pay for itself by freeing up women to work formal jobs, but with the very high staff ratios daycares are required to have it cant be saving much
£1.97bn for the trains & 12 years maintanence so it may be possible, but very close.
There are some details here from the Mace chief, there was an article from a former high up at HS2 which talked about Lendlease funding it but I'm currently struggling to find a link.
No mention of HS2 (what's left of it)?
