Thread: New high speed rail link ...is it worth it ?
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Old 09-01-2012, 13:51   #63
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Re: New high speed rail link ...is it worth it ?
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Originally Posted by Osem View Post
No its not chucking money away. I don't think I've said or implied that. I'm merely making the point that at this time the financial implications of this have to be very carefully considered and IMHO they don't add up and there isn't any prospect of a financial surplus to plunder. We all know massive cuts are coming and the electorate won't much like vast sums of money being allocated to this over the years if other budgets are suffering at the same time. If things go wrong I fear we'll wind up with the railway equivalent of funding crisis hit PFI hospitals - great facilities which are rapidly becoming too expensive to run. If we'd won the 2016 or 2020 Olympics instead of 2012, I think the same would be being said about those now such tough financial choices are having to be made.
Your right is it a big risk, but if we do not get HS2 then we need to further upgrade the WCML as soon as possible!
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