Heathrow Third Runway Approved by Parliament
Jul 20, 2023, 3:06 am
#286
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 7,238
The thing with major expensive transport projects is that they need to be ‘transformative’. Crossrail might be massively late and over budget but it was immediately transformative of the transport landscape here.You can see that by just how quickly it’s become full.
HS2, in its current guise, simply isn’t. It’s merely going to make getting from London to Birmingham and Manchester a bit faster. There’s no real extra connectivity, no transformation of train travel to Scotland, no airport spur (although tbf the OOK connection will be more useful than it sounds). For the money we’re paying, it’s not delivering a lot.
Whether the spur would’ve been worth it I can’t say but looking at the whole picture, it’s very hard to get excited about HS2.
HS2, in its current guise, simply isn’t. It’s merely going to make getting from London to Birmingham and Manchester a bit faster. There’s no real extra connectivity, no transformation of train travel to Scotland, no airport spur (although tbf the OOK connection will be more useful than it sounds). For the money we’re paying, it’s not delivering a lot.
Whether the spur would’ve been worth it I can’t say but looking at the whole picture, it’s very hard to get excited about HS2.
Jul 20, 2023, 4:27 am
#287
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 5,797
The thing with major expensive transport projects is that they need to be ‘transformative’. Crossrail might be massively late and over budget but it was immediately transformative of the transport landscape here.You can see that by just how quickly it’s become full.
HS2, in its current guise, simply isn’t. It’s merely going to make getting from London to Birmingham and Manchester a bit faster. There’s no real extra connectivity, no transformation of train travel to Scotland, no airport spur (although tbf the OOK connection will be more useful than it sounds). For the money we’re paying, it’s not delivering a lot.
Whether the spur would’ve been worth it I can’t say but looking at the whole picture, it’s very hard to get excited about HS2.
HS2, in its current guise, simply isn’t. It’s merely going to make getting from London to Birmingham and Manchester a bit faster. There’s no real extra connectivity, no transformation of train travel to Scotland, no airport spur (although tbf the OOK connection will be more useful than it sounds). For the money we’re paying, it’s not delivering a lot.
Whether the spur would’ve been worth it I can’t say but looking at the whole picture, it’s very hard to get excited about HS2.
Jul 21, 2023, 9:22 am
#288
Join Date: Apr 2012
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