|
Re: Train Spotters Corner
Quote:
Quote from The Sun:
Ministers are “actively considering” axing the entire £56 billion high speed 2 rail network, it has emerged.
A senior Cabinet source told Channel 4’s Dispatches programme to be aired tonight that another option under review is only building HS2 to Birmingham amid fears the project’s budget is spiralling out of control.
Annual spending on HS2 over the next decade is on course to soar by a whopping 40 per cent to £6 billion, according to revelations by Channel 4 Dispatches.
This is equivalent to the amount Network Rail spends per year on maintaining and upgrading the entire rail network.
In public Theresa May remains committed to HS2 but the programme quoted a Cabinet minister saying she wanted to “scrap the whole thing” after entering No10 but “lacked the confidence” to follow through on it.
In a further blow for HS2 just one in five voters said they want the multi-billion pound project to be built.
|
A lot of money for not much gain IMHO. Whole story on red link above.
__________________
History is much like an endless waltz: The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever.
However history will change with my coronation - Mariemaia Khushrenada
|