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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Not to mention France had their high-speed link from the channel tunnel to their capital (LGV Nord) open on day one, whereas it took us a good fifteen years to do the same here with HS1, despite it being less than half the length!
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You see the kerfuffle all the well-heeled landowners and villagers are making, just because HS2 is passing within half a mile of their homes? You can multiply that by a hundred if the British government attempted to use the same methods the French do when they want to bulldoze their latest
grand projet through the countryside. There are good reasons why major civil engineering projects move more slowly and cost more money in the UK, and on the whole, I think our restrictions on the State's ability to confiscate land and act regardless of local concerns is worth it.