Best way to spend £106BILLION ??
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Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
It would fund the BBC for the next 25 years.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I predict that maybe less than half way through the build the rest is cancelled as it has gone over budget by double the estimate. So it will be a railway to nowhere, serving no purpose , to anyone and saving diddly squat time.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
The OP is made under a false premise.
There is not a pot of £106billion waiting to be spent on something.
Some of the cost has been raised commercially from the project itself.
Thus if we didn't have HS2, we wouldn't have all that finance.
But there's no doubt a lot of public money will be spent, and there's good arguments for spending that elsewhere.
As there always is with any large project.
There is not a pot of £106billion waiting to be spent on something.
Some of the cost has been raised commercially from the project itself.
Thus if we didn't have HS2, we wouldn't have all that finance.
But there's no doubt a lot of public money will be spent, and there's good arguments for spending that elsewhere.
As there always is with any large project.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
I bet Cummings has his fingers in this one too, along with his mates.
How about spending some of it on providing a home for the homeless and medical research instead of relying on charities?
How about spending some of it on providing a home for the homeless and medical research instead of relying on charities?
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
Plus the rumoured 22000 jobs it will create and all the supply companies for materials etc.
It classic Keynesian economics to pump the system
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
To be honest, I'm grateful for anything that gets me away from London as quickly as possible.
Affordable housing that doesn't get flogged off.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
HS2 may have a number of benefits - we won't really know if any of it will benefit as planned until it is finished.
At the present time, with the economy taking a smack in the nuts due to the virus, that may actually be a very good thing.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
With better management it wouldn't need to be as expensive... according to 2 contractors quoting for Japanese Knotweek treatment [on land being acquired for the route], who responded to the HS2 project management consultants' requests for revaluations of their work packages which effectively doubled the contract value- both rubber stamped without any value engineering.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
You've been reading too much Daily Wail, the protesters friend.More of a shame for the SSSI , Ancient woodlands , nature reserves that now find they are in the way. Not to forgetting the odd new housing estate, bit's of newly open canal oh and most of a scout camp along the way.
No just looked at how things are for myself and what it all means for around my way. I'm not bothered about price of my house brigade and I don't want my view being spoilt by the pin pick train line in the distance.You've been reading too much Daily Wail, the protesters friend.
flake99please
We all scream for ice cream
- Location
- Edinburgh
Would £106 billion be enough to build a substantial wall along the entire length of the English/Scottish border? 
Badger_Boom
Veteran
- Location
- York
Why would it? Neither have ever been part of HS2, and the latter has always been touted as a separate scheme (HS3 anyone?).
If it's all about the economy and getting things moving then why are they not starting at the other end ?
Better links across the North are way over due. it's often quicker to down to London than it is to go from one part of the North to the other.
The benefits would start coming in a lot quicker that way round.
Better links across the North are way over due. it's often quicker to down to London than it is to go from one part of the North to the other.
The benefits would start coming in a lot quicker that way round.
