[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

Hugh, you dont know what the hell you are talking about, l work in the area that is going to be effected badly by this crap.

I speak with the residents each day, and this nonsense about comp is rubbish, they have been told that IF they don't agree to the sale of houses to make way for this, it will be taken by the government.

That's how compulsory purchase works. The government will then pay compensation for those who lose their houses. Up to £50,000 more than the current value of the house.

BTW, do you seriously think that if the government cancelled the projects and used the money to build more motorways that they would not have to knock down any houses?

The actual railway line that is going to be carved up, l walk past each day, sometimes twice and the amount of properties going to be demolished by this will be immense.

OK.

There is going to be a multi million pound hotel built directly OVER the line that will use these high speed trains, and the effect on the area will be terrible, at the moment the area is heavy in traffic, god knows what will happen with the traffic problems then.

The company that will own and run the hotel is probably paying a lot toward the construction of the line.

As for traffic, if they market the line correctly, the line will remove a lot of that traffic.

I am not being disrespectful to you Hugh, but l don't an UK company will win the contract for this major project.

That's not what you said.

We get all this 'promise' about how it will create thousands of jobs and bring business to the areas surrounding this rail link, but it will go to foreign workers, as whoever wins the contract will take on workers at the cheapest price possible, it will probably get finance from the tax payer and also the Lottery (Like the London OLYMPICS).

Lets wait and see what happens before we complain about it..

This country is not anything compared to other countries, it will use the cheaper labour possible and cost billions MORE than what is expected.

Which is exactly what other countries do. The difference being other countries sometimes forget little things like Health and Safety, which is often the reason other countries finish projects more quickly and more cheaply than ours.

I don't know where you live, but as l said l work along the area that will be hardest hit by this rail link.

You make it sound like they will be torturing people and leaving them destitute. They won't, and while having to leave a house can be upsetting, you can make another house your home.