HS2 | La costruzione di pipistrelli con tutti i lavori civili associati costerà £ 216 milioni, rivela DFT
HS2 | Construction of bat shed with all associated civils work will cost £216M, DfT reveals
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HS2 | La costruzione di pipistrelli con tutti i lavori civili associati costerà £ 216 milioni, rivela DFT
HS2 | Construction of bat shed with all associated civils work will cost £216M, DfT reveals
di insomnimax_99
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In contrast, Norway built the world’s longest road tunnel (the Lærdal tunnel) for ~£240 million in today’s money.
Kinda relevant [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83eQcOWWqj8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83eQcOWWqj8)
Actual human beings got together in a room and decided that this was a good use of all that money.
Baffled.
Why do people trust the Conservatives to be good with spending tax payers money?
Keeps the Natural England bureaucrats happy at least .
NE should have been overruled on this but none wanted to put their heads over the parapet.
Wow this is really doing some heavy lifting for rage bait. It’s taking the price of the shed, the cost of the railway inside it and then adjusting it for inflation to get to a number well over double what was actually spent on the shed!
That figure includes the actual cost of the railway under the tunnel which would have been built anyway. £120milllion for the actual bat tunnel is still ludicrous no need to overinflate it for drama. The £48million for the design and risk assessment is the real scandal.
Screw the bats. I’m all for protecting nature, but not at the cost of improving essential infrastructure that’s part of a sustainable future.
There’s a disused railway line in Manchester called the Fallowfield loop, its a very well used route for bike commuters, but it’s pitch black on the dark so a lot of people don’t use it for half the year. There was talk of putting lighting down there to get more people on it but the reason they didn’t do it was because it would disturb the bats.
Are you saying we should do without the bat shed and screw the bats or do without the railway and screw infrastructure or you just think you know better how much a bat shed should cost?
Something I dont get – presumably that £226m has gone back into the public purse because it has been spent on British workers and British material? So trickle down economics – those people take that money and spend it in the local community?
That money hasn’t literally now gone to the bat kingdom as penance for our misdeeds
This is not the worst of it. The reopening of a 3.3-mile train line to Portishead from Bristol necessitated 79,187 pages of planning documents. The process has taken 16 years so far. The Lower Thames Crossing cost £300m, and that is just for the planning application alone. Our planning system is broken.
> Construction of bat shed with all associated civils work will cost £216M
But if we attract the services of a Batman it will all be worth it in the end
About half of that is probably paying consultants to say “yeah put it over there”
I honestly believe you could take a room of fresh graduates with ZERO real world experience & zero connections and they could still complete this project in less time and with a lower budget. People really don’t appreciate how much 33 billion is.
Just scrap natural England and reabsorb into a government department
Doesn’t go far enough in my opinion. We should be retroactively adding bat tunnels to all UK infrastructure. This will create high paying high skilled jobs for Working People.
It’s just tax payer money. It’s free and every where