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HS2 progress 2020 and beyond

The problem for those designing these schemes is that the politicians move the goalposts to suit their own needs, objectors arrive in their thousands and what was planned never gets done without modifications to suit every objector.
I saw a story about a motorway by-pass having to be rerouted costing many thousands ( maybe millions) of pounds to avoid six great crested newts.
 
Pedrocut said:
But France/Spain/Japan/China built high speed rail…..
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It’s not what they built it’s how they built it! China for example basically copied the Japanese high speed rail, and who knows what their costs really are/were. The shin kan sen (spell) I first rode in 1976 I believe from Tokyo to Nagoya. They started slowly and developed techniques over time. I believe France did as well, not sure about Spain, I would expect them to use much of France’s technology which is a good thing!
 
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