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    L’obiettivo HS2 di essere operativo entro il 2033 “non può essere raggiunto”

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    1. BobMonkhaus on

      We should have never put the Duke Nukem Forever team in charge of it.

    2. ProtonHyrax99 on

      China will be colonising mars by the time we fix our sodding rail system

    3. Zhukov-74 on

      >HS2 has confirmed that its aim to get trains running between Birmingham and London between 2029 and 2033 “cannot be achieved”.

      HS2’s construction lasting another 10 years is quite frankly embarrassing.

    4. Helios_AI on

      >In an end of year update, HS2 insisted that significant progress had been made throughout 2025 with the project now at an “advanced stage of a comprehensive reset”.

      Reads like they’ve almost finished fucking the whole thing off and starting again, a textbook example of progress.

    5. joemac11235 on

      Quite frankly it’s embarrassing that it’s taking this long to build a railway between London and Birmingham and that it’s affecting other projects too

    6. South_Buy_3175 on

      “HS2 goal to be up and running cannot be met”

      Fixed it for ya.

      Waste of time and money, just typical of this country

    7. Cielo11 on

      Please don’t forget the Tories kept kicking HS2 down the road because they considered it a toxic subject. Kept trying to reduce it’s budget by cutting it’s size.

      The whole thing has been a mess because of Politicians choosing to do what suits their optics and satisfying their voter base… RATHER THAN INVESTING IN THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY.

      I have no doubt the Right Wing press where always so negative about HS2 because the Tories were toying with the idea of cancelling it. They wanted the public opinion to be negative before they did.

    8. stbens on

      By time it is finished it will be outdated anyway as technology will have moved on.

    9. BuQuChi on

      This is a great advertisement for a communist state model. China wouldn’t accept workers at this level of ineptitude and inefficiency

    10. mainframe_maisie on

      We’re struggling to build a train line from Birmingham to… not even London. Such a mess honestly. And the largest benefits would have been the branches further north, it’s a huge shame they got scrapped

    11. HMWYA on

      Nothing more British than a train being overpriced and delayed, to be fair.

    12. Low_Map4314 on

      Maybe we should get the Chinese in to fix this mess ? Given all they’ve achieved with Infrastructure, our current lot need to be sacked for incompetence

    13. helpnxt on

      HS2 is still being done? I thought it got cancelled to the point of not worth doing anymore

    14. the_hucumber on

      Is there any other country where you can pay so much for so long and not get any railway built?

      So far something like £40bn has been spent since 2012 and literally not one train has high speed two’d.

      It’s insane in any other country even the most corrupt you’d have at least some complete track by now even if just to throw off the accusations of corruption.

      Where has all the money gone and why is it most likely a shady business hastily set up by a Tory donor?

    15. A_friendly_goosey on

      We are embarrassing. By the time this shits built we will need another one and China will have a base on Mars. The money and time involved for something so basic from a country that put train tracks GLOBALLY. We are a joke.

    16. WeRegretToInform on

      When NIMBYs put their kids to bed, I bet they tell them if they work really hard, and be a complete pain, when they grow up they can disrupt a project as big as HS2.

      HS2 wasn’t a bad idea in principle. The project management wasn’t great, but wasn’t dreadful. The issue is NIMBY.

    17. ChickenPijja on

      I know this is only a PR thing on the BBC, and not a full technical analysis of it, but which part is delaying it now? I know it’s not as simple as just “throwing a couple of rails down”, but give the general public at least a vague reason why it’s delayed. Is it groundworks, tunnels, stations, legal reasons, signalling, cabling, thefts, rescoping, rolling stock, recruitment or materials? How much is this delay pushing back the first train by? 6 months or 2 years?

    18. radiant_0wl on

      Being late is to be expected, but this comment is alarming

      >Earlier this year, HS2 CEO Mark Wild acknowledged that construction had been “harder than thought” and “needed a reset” involving a review of the project’s cost and schedule.

      A review of the projects cost and schedule suggest he has no idea or control of project.

      He ought to know what precisely is causing the delay and any relevant cost knock on impact.

      He doesn’t seem like someone leading the project if he doesn’t know that.

    19. Personal_Lab_484 on

      Surely we can just ignore the nimbys at this point, block all appeal, and build the fucking thing.

    20. kingjoeg on

      I remember this being announced in 2013, and I was starting university in 2014. Can’t believe almost 2 decades later it still won’t have been finished.

    22. Photek1000 on

      Back to the never “should have started it” POV

      The money could have been better distributed, but since when has any major government project, national or local, ever run to time and budget.

      Not even considering the house that have been demolished, the woodlands cut through, etc etc.

      Maybe we could have just invested the current infrastructure to improve it, even if just subsidised travel, rather than chase a moderately quicker journey time.

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