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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Nickbat on 25 September 2013, 16:13:50
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HS2 has a new boss...on a salary of £591,000 a year. :o :o
http://news.sky.com/story/1146341/hs2s-new-boss-appointed-on-591k-salary (http://news.sky.com/story/1146341/hs2s-new-boss-appointed-on-591k-salary)
Is there anything about this project that is not humungously expensive? >:( >:(
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It's a 40/50/80 whatever billion pound project, if a company/business was spending that then the CEO would ask for a shed load more than 500k
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HS2 Ltd will milk it for all its worth, until common sense prevails, and the project is canned.
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Nobody wants it, do they? :-\
Shambles, reality check, blah....
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Nobody wants it, do they? :-\
Shambles, reality check, blah....
I'll be dead so I don't care.
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In the late 1960's and early 1970's (when STEMO's age was still in double digits, just :P) they talked about motorways costing about £0.5m a mile and I think the raised part of the M4 in London was the first motorway to break the £1m per mile. Now HS2 is costing almost £125m per mile, have things really increased in price x 250 since then? :o :o :o :o :o
By the time it opens in 2076 2026 at an on budget cost of £76tnbn, I expect the first supersonic hyperloops will be in service in advanced countries, while we are still building expensive transport systems with Victorian technology. >:( >:( >:( >:(
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...while the existing network is already pre historic.
If there was nout else to spend the money on then maybe. But we're nowhere near rich enough as a country, and way behind on spending.
Our management would come up with thus sort if scheme. Misguided nonsense based on no sense or reality whatsoever.
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A commuter on tele this morning said . Why don't they put three more carriages on and change one of the 1st class into a second class as they are empty?
I would go further and run extra trains in between- sort of asset utilisation
Just send my 590,000 to my new Greek bank account please.