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(DIR) Post #AyEqPVhcuuqxdYlzhQ by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-09-15T18:22:03.610855Z
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/its-time-to-admit-that-high-speed-rail-is-a-dead-end/For those who think there could never be a worse disaster than HS2, or hope that governments can learn from their mistakes, I have disappointing news. Later this month, ministers will unveil a future platinum medallist in the Fiasco Olympics: a project which even their own infrastructure watchdog calls ‘unachievable’. A new, high-speed line between Liverpool and Manchester which will actually take longer than the existing rail service.Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.https://archive.ph/wU9mC
(DIR) Post #AyEtHXEtcUSRwsDuNM by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-09-15T18:38:07.122892Z
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@Flick Good God!
(DIR) Post #AyEtILDtmTMwyG8olM by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-09-15T18:54:23.325545Z
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@HebrideanHecate Ridiculous waste of money.
(DIR) Post #AyEtMmSGTZGEaRyfpo by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-09-15T18:54:49.417726Z
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@Flick It makes me so angry, these clowns keep doing this stuff 🤦
(DIR) Post #AyG2TYWhkl2AA4JtPk by stannard@mastodon.org.uk
2025-09-16T07:22:16Z
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@HebrideanHecate @Flick And get paid to do it !