• mondoman712@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Just to note, the 130 billion figure for HS2 isn’t just for the London to Birmingham leg.

    Also there’s a lot of things that went into making it expensive: a lack of high speed expertise, extra tunnels to satisfy nimbys, the government insisting on low risk contracts and changing plans constantly, etc

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      1 year ago

      You know what, that’s a good point.

      However, Japan’s Chuo Shinkansen is like 90% tunneled or something crazy and the rest of Europe (and China and Japan) has a ton of high speed expertise to draw from.