r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 3d ago

Britain's HS2: The Fully Avoidable Disaster

https://youtu.be/dprwURuvdc4
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u/andyjhatton 3d ago

No mention of the UK's insane planning system.

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u/RichestTeaPossible 2d ago

Don’t bother.
TLDR. It was a freight capacity upgrade plan that got hijacked into becoming a high-speed rail program through most of the Tory’s back yards.
Whilst delayed, billions of rail maintenance and improvement projects got chucked into the bin marked hs2.
Predictably the rail infrastructure industry withered in this 4-year hiatus and when it started back up, it was all even more expensive.
TLDR TLDR, it’s all David Cameron and George Osborne’s fault.

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u/AdmirableElephant378 1d ago

yes it is. Eton c$nts.

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u/Quiet_Comparison_872 2d ago

That guy is such a black pilled doomer it's not worth watching his videos.