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31 Comments
No surprise our government cheaping out again
What they should have done is focus their attention on upgrading the ECML for high speed running up to 140mph as intended during the br era the IET trains the Pendolinos and Voyagers and the Intercity 225's are more then capable of running those speeds and it also give the HS1 trains somewhere to go when they are eventually replaced
To think that they ripped up hundreds if not thousands of miles of track in the 1960’s saying the would never need them!
HS2 is like a rip off of avanti west coast
Sunak is a D*g
Why can we not get the Chinese to do this instead the can get this done very quickly
How TF wants a highspeed line TO Birmingham, coulda made it one way ffs.
When the whole Europe is connected by an amazing amount of high-speed rail links, it's baffling how the UK is lagging by a laaarge margin.
This the PM that says China steals our technology? China has 35000 miles of high speed rail in their country and we in uk a failing to build HS2 135 miles from London to Manchester. He is taking the P.
He is making the UK look bad – it is so effing embarrassing.
Who the fuck wants to go to Manchester anyways
They need to get rid of all trains
An unelected prime minister with no mandate went against the will of the British people. Likely because he’s the husband of a billionaire empire and he ideologically wedded to fucking over every normal person in the UK
I remember being in highschool when they first started talking about this , that's over 10 years ago .
UK is a joke when building any new infrastructure
The decision was made due to eighteenth century fascist ideology.
But, despite its name, it was never about speed. It was about capacity. Capacity so that more people and freight could travel by rail. Cancellation of HS2 is a disaster for the future of the UK. And selling the acquired land is salting the earth.
We keep giving the railway companies billions of pounds time to stop the gravy train
To be fair, Manchester, Leeds and the surounding region are pretty unimportant to the British economy and England as a whole. Birmingham is actually a big city. I can see why they scrapped it.
The money saved would go towards war efforts instead.
CAMERCOON & IT’S FUCKBUDDY GIDS WHITE ELEPHANT
This country is shocking.
Our government's sanity is very much in doubt.
This is what a corrupt government does. Those billions were never intended to actually fund HS2, it was only ever meant for Tory back pockets, just like the covid and PPE scandal. Far to many dumb stupid people in this country that continue to vote for them.
a crystal clear statement from the gov that it wants to double down on fueling the climate disaster
Good! It was a pointless white elephant! The saved money can now be better used. (Whether it actually is, is another question, of course)
No such thing as HS1
No, it was cancelled because the Tories are a bunch of cun!s
they will still blame the European Union ?
Cancelled because London got what it wanted and f the rest of the country!
Poor countries all have the same fates.
At least he's telling it straight.. Nothing is confirmed or committed to. Corrupt government. Typical
Hahaha billions for a rail line we already have, bet they will charge us 450 quid a pop