Work on the first phase of the project - between London and Birmingham - is well under way and that part of the line is due to open by 2033.
The estimated cost of HS2 was between £72bn and £98bn at 2019 prices. A budget of £55.7bn for the whole of HS2 was set in 2015 - but this was made before the Leeds leg was cancelled. Mr Harper said inflation was not affecting the "overall affordability of HS2 in real terms" but it was "creating pressures against its existing annual funding settlements".
However, Lord Tony Berkeley questioned whether more services to London were needed and said money would be better spent on local and regional services.
Scrap all of it. It's a Simpson's monorail
Not surprised really, as long as the south are ok stuff everyone else
as long as London gets these thing, eh? all the way from one part of London to the other - at 200mph? What a joke... :D
That's levelling up for you. One city in the south, one in the midlands and one in the north.....
Thermal reduction
The HS2 rail line will go all the way to London Euston, the chancellor has said, following a report the scheme may no longer reach the capital's centre.
It shouldn’t run anywhere. The whole thing is a pointless money swallowing vanity project that was never needed. The money should be used for upgrading other infrastructure across the whole UK including new reservoirs and improving energy security.
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