21st March 2014, 08:10 AM
Land-Escapist Wrote:Are we as a profession ready to tackle such a huge infrastructure project? Because we will probably need to be at some point...
succintly put.
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The March 2014 relaunch of HS2 by the new chair is the sixth relaunch since the start of the project. Each time, the claims for HS2 get more nebulous and the promised results more dependent on other factors which are not included in the HS2 proposals and will not be paid for out of the £50 billion budget.
As demonstrated by the recently announced plans for a ‘garden city’ at Ebbsfleet, following the failure of the HS1 station there to generate new jobs in the area, simply putting in a station on a high speed link does not automatically lead to economic growth in the area. What’s worse, with HS2, reports produced for HS2 Ltd show that any extra jobs in an area near an HS2 station will have come other areas in the UK. Growth from HS2 will come at the expense of Cornwall, East Anglia, the South Coast and Aberdeen, as well as numerous other places..............."
http://stophs2.org/news/10512-hs2-wrong