UK High-Speed Rail Blowout: Costs Triple

by Wendell Cox 09/22/2019

London’s Daily Telegraph reported on September 21 that the cost of HS-3, the high-speed rail line from London’s Euston Station to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds is now expected to cost £106.4 Billion. The Telegraph notes that this cost is double the amount maintained by former Prime Minister Theresa May’s government until her recent resignation. In fact, the cost is more than three times the £33 billion announced in 2010, which is indicated in a detailed times in the Telegraph article.

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Let the ChiComs do it

Submitted by davebarnes on Wed, 10/30/2019 - 11:40.

Let the PRC government built it.
Will be done quickly and and a low direct financial cost.
Just look the other way when the Chinese ignore every land law and safety rules.

Dave Barnes
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