HS2.

PostRe: HS2. by **Peter Crisp** » Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:46 am

Vermilion wrote:Investment in Luton: Some
Investment in my area: Naff all.

Be grateful to live in Luton.

Luton is actually getting an absolute deluge of investment at the moment after decades and decades of being left to rot.

https://thinkluton.co.uk/key-developments/

The town I live in isn't so lucky and despite the population pretty much trippling over the last 20 years the only investment we've ever had is the A1 shopping park.
The roads are a shambles as they can't cope and we have zero entertainment options other than pubs.

PostRe: HS2. by **poshrule_uk** » Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:08 am

Peter Crisp wrote:
Vermilion wrote:Investment in Luton: Some
Investment in my area: Naff all.

Be grateful to live in Luton.

Luton is actually getting an absolute deluge of investment at the moment after decades and decades of being left to rot.

https://thinkluton.co.uk/key-developments/

The town I live in isn't so lucky and despite the population pretty much trippling over the last 20 years the only investment we've ever had is the A1 shopping park.
The roads are a shambles as they can't cope and we have zero entertainment options other than pubs.

TBF once you leave Luton it's all downhill.

PostRe: HS2. by **Moggy** » Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:17 am

poshrule_uk wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:
Vermilion wrote:Investment in Luton: Some
Investment in my area: Naff all.

Be grateful to live in Luton.

Luton is actually getting an absolute deluge of investment at the moment after decades and decades of being left to rot.

https://thinkluton.co.uk/key-developments/

The town I live in isn't so lucky and despite the population pretty much trippling over the last 20 years the only investment we've ever had is the A1 shopping park.
The roads are a shambles as they can't cope and we have zero entertainment options other than pubs.

TBF once you leave Luton it's all downhill.

Because the town is at the top of a mountain?

PostRe: HS2. by **poshrule_uk** » Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:19 am

Moggy wrote:
poshrule_uk wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:
Vermilion wrote:Investment in Luton: Some
Investment in my area: Naff all.

Be grateful to live in Luton.

Luton is actually getting an absolute deluge of investment at the moment after decades and decades of being left to rot.

https://thinkluton.co.uk/key-developments/

The town I live in isn't so lucky and despite the population pretty much trippling over the last 20 years the only investment we've ever had is the A1 shopping park.
The roads are a shambles as they can't cope and we have zero entertainment options other than pubs.

TBF once you leave Luton it's all downhill.

Because the town is at the top of a mountain?

No. Because you have just landed after a week in Tenerife.

PostRe: HS2. by **Peter Crisp** » Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:22 pm

Moggy wrote:Because the town is at the top of a mountain?

Luton is massively hilly for East Anglia.
Yeah, it's hardly the Himalayas but the airport is on the top of a pretty big hill and that's why the Luton Dart isn't a train but an automated people mover with motors at each end.

PostRe: HS2. by **Moggy** » Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:25 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:
Moggy wrote:Because the town is at the top of a mountain?

Luton is massively hilly for East Anglia.
Yeah, it's hardly the Himalayas but the airport is on the top of a pretty big hill and that's why the Luton Dart isn't a train but an automated people mover with motors at each end.

PostRe: HS2. by **Peter Crisp** » Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:26 pm

poshrule_uk wrote:No. Because you have just landed after a week in Tenerife.

Why would anyone want to go to tenerife after seeing the majesty of Luton and it's mighty airport?

You could just spend 2 weeks in the airport car park plane spotting, much better :wub:

.

Luton has a Costa and a Waterstones.
I'd love to see Tenerife match that.

PostRe: HS2. by **Vermilion** » Thu Feb 02, 2023 1:50 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:Luton has a Waterstones.

That's more than what there is here.

PostRe: HS2. by **Peter Crisp** » Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:11 pm

PostRe: HS2. by **rinks** » Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:10 pm

Yeah, let's celebrate the excavation of Old Oak Common for a business-class railway.

PostRe: HS2. by **Grumpy David** » Tue Feb 07, 2023 12:20 pm

HS2 faces further delays and cuts as UK government seeks to rein in cost of high-speed line

Britain’s planned High Speed 2 rail line faces further delays of up to four years and more cuts to the project under plans being drawn up by ministers to rein in its ballooning costs.

The extra delays to the country’s biggest infrastructure project would mean it would not be completed until as late as 2045 — 12 years later than originally planned.

In a bid to cut costs further, the government shelved a 140km stretch of the eastern leg from East Midlands Parkway to Leeds two years ago.

The latest cost-cutting initiative is now examining scrapping the remaining 60km stretch of the eastern leg.

Another potential cut to the scope of the project is the Handsacre Link, which would connect HS2 to the existing West Coast main line, allowing high-speed trains to serve Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent.

PostRe: HS2. by **Ecno** » Tue Feb 07, 2023 12:51 pm

Absolute insane project management. Just build the strawberry floating thing.

What's Labour's HS2 position?

PostRe: HS2. by **Oblomov Boblomov** » Tue Feb 07, 2023 12:58 pm

2045

It feels like this has been going on forever already. In 2045 we'll all be too old to leave the house without soiling our granny pants.

PostRe: HS2. by **SEP** » Tue Feb 07, 2023 1:14 pm

The project will finally be completed in 2063, will have cost £2 trillion, and will extend from London to Old Oak Common.

PostRe: HS2. by **Moggy** » Tue Feb 07, 2023 1:22 pm

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:2045

It feels like this has been going on forever already. In 2045 we'll all be too old to leave the house without soiling our granny pants.

Speak for yourself, I've been shitting my pants for years.

PostRe: HS2. by **Victor Mildew** » Tue Feb 07, 2023 1:28 pm

But I thought London was so amazing that nobody would ever want to leave.

Check mate HS2 and Jeremy Corbyn 8-)

PostRe: HS2. by **Vermilion** » Tue Feb 07, 2023 2:00 pm

I wish i could live in London.

PostRe: HS2. by **Grumpy David** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:32 am

Some of the potential cuts the FT reported on yesterday now might include:

reducing the number of trains from 18 to 10 an hour (would mean fewer platforms are needed at HS2 stations)

reducing the train top speeds from 224mph to 125mph

Might as well rename HS2 to something else.

PostRe: HS2. by **Victor Mildew** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:34 am

More like LS2 amirite

PostRe: HS2. by **Moggy** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:39 am

Grumpy David wrote:Some of the potential cuts the FT reported on yesterday now might include:

reducing the number of trains from 18 to 10 an hour (would mean fewer platforms are needed at HS2 stations)

reducing the train top speeds from 224mph to 125mph

Might as well rename HS2 to something else.

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