One of HS2's underlying problem was its name. It was and is all about capacity building but was marketed as speed.
That left it vulnerable to the obvious evaluation of the billions spent v the time savings.
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
The problem is though that Europe embraced the TGV's 360kph standards that we also used for HS1. We have gold plated this for HS2 and gone for 400kph. That has doubled costs already with no upper limit in sight just to shave a few extra minutes off the trip.  |
HS2 is 360 km/h (225 mph) not 400 km/h (250 mph).