29-01-21, 12:39 PM
(29-01-21, 12:28 PM)mtread link Wrote:Quote: Still we'll have HS2, great if you want to go to Birmingham non stop, latest total cost somewhere around £106bn and I not sure if that includes phase 2. Bearing in mind that is almost double the cost they predicted in 2015, at that rate it could get to well over £200bnAs someone said - 'why would anyone want to get to Birmingham 20 minutes earlier?'
Quite as you can't go anywhere else, no stops on the way :rolleyes and I wonder what the real ticket price will be, say for the first 10yrs? i.e. £200bn divided by how many passengers and how long to pay it all back and back into profit.
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