Eastern leg HS2 to Leeds to be cancelled
Visuals for the proposed HS2 Euston Station, source: HS2 Ltd
The extension of the HS2 high-speed line from the Midlands and Leeds will be scrapped. Sources in in the government have said this to the BBC.
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LOL
The industrial countries are all investing in Heavy/Hard infrastructure to boost their economy to bounce back from the covid downturn.
UK also has an economy with a downturn from covid but also a downturn from brexshitastrophe… Instead of spending, spending, spending – on real infrastructure, in typical British ideology – HS2 East is Truncated/Cancelled!
How very British, all projects, does not matter size or scope, it will be lucky, fortunate to have 50% achieved.
It has always been this way and will always be this way.
HS2 undersized and when completed, will be over capacity from day one.
It as with all things, has been designed for passenger numbers from the 1980s.
This is up there with the cancellation of the rail link from London Heathrow T5 to the GWR. It was cancelled. How many vehicles and how much carbon would be eliminated by everyone in the GWR catchment area taking the Train to LHR!