tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post8246247350879987312..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: HS2 – Gilligan Is Still A DisgraceTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-46397763728494998542013-01-28T11:56:00.685+00:002013-01-28T11:56:00.685+00:00Huh, the UK government in all their sublime logic ...Huh, the UK government in all their sublime logic are going to spend £33BILLION! on 186 miles of high speed railway which will take THIRTEEN YEARS to build!<br /><br />Now we all know that 13 years mean 20 years, £33billion means £50billion and all this to link only five cities with one line. Now compare this to the recently opened High Speed Railway in CHINA....<br /><br />1486 miles/£94billion/FOUR years and the worst thing - their trains look awesome... ours will simply look shit, conforming to the millions of sheets of red tape to complete the overpriced project... let's have a look at that again...<br /><br />1486miles/£94billion/FOUR years/Awesome bullet trains<br />186miles/£33billion/THIRTEEN years/Bollocks clunky trains -<br /><br />- Roaring through the once peaceful English countryside and there's not even a consideration to link London with Edinburgh or Glasgow (no wonder the Scots want rid of us!)<br /><br />Now I can't be bothered to work out how much more value the Chinese are building their systems for but it's a helluva lot fucking better that what David Cameron has 'promised'!<br /><br />So why don't they hire the Chinese, build the tracks underground, get rid of the fucking useless red tape that means the country is losing £33billion and then spend it on the airports or give us all a nice little bonus in our pay packets...<br /><br />£33billion divided by 65million people in the UK that's... £507 each!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />I know I'd rather prefer £507 in my pocket rather than it being spent on a railway I'll probably never use only to save 50 minutes off a journey time!<br /><br />They built railways quicker in the wild wild west!<br /><br />So, Cameron - fuck off with all this 'saving the economy' bollocks, stop helping your rich friends get richer by promising them business and spread the wealth to us little people so that we don't slip back into the dark ages!Ben E Brewerhttp://eroticaebooks.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-59897401624222307972012-06-13T16:03:41.556+01:002012-06-13T16:03:41.556+01:00The previous comment is from someone not giving th...The previous comment is from someone not giving their name, but wanting to cancel HS2 and talking about "fairness".<br /><br />The report which Gilligan cites does not cast doubt on the BCR for HS2, or for any other project. I would hope that the commenter would have at least skimmed through it and found that out.<br /><br />Then perhaps an explanation can be found for the "more reasonable basis". But I don't see this happening. Nor do I expect this commenter to tell where all that extra capacity will come from if HS2 is cancelled.Tim Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-85256121247281424242012-06-13T15:38:59.005+01:002012-06-13T15:38:59.005+01:00With respect, your article seems just as biased FO...With respect, your article seems just as biased FOR with regard to HS2 as you assert Gilligan's was AGAINST.<br /><br />Separate out the Gilligan vitriol which is not interesting. If the Dft report casts doubt on the cost-benefit claimed in the proposal why can't it be recalculated on a more reasonable basis and then we can all know what the fairest figure for the return is.<br /><br />And then we can cancel HS2 :-))Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-58186232000187222522012-06-12T19:09:10.853+01:002012-06-12T19:09:10.853+01:00Not sure how you think that HS1 came in under budg...Not sure how you think that HS1 came in under budget When in fact it came in Way over budget<br />See. http://www.omegacentre.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/studies/cases/pdf/UK_CTRL_2P_080911.pdfMike enoreply@blogger.com