High speed fail: How the Government broke its HS2 promises

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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HS2 has been beset with calamity – what promises have the Government broken on this flagship project? Christian Wolmar, journalist and train expert, joins Ros Taylor to discuss what has gone wrong and why it’s so hard to build a high-speed railway in Britain. “HS2 is costing £100 million a week – imagine the end cost.” “We never holistically planned the project, and we’ve muddled through to huge costs.” “Building a high-speed rail from a poor to rich area impoverishes the poor area.” Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Assistant producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Lead producer: Jacob Jarvis. Bunker music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Jade Bailey. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:25.4	Last week it was hinted that the long awaited high-speed two railway might terminate six miles outside London to save money. The Chancellor quashed that, but HS2 has already been scaled back.
1:31.1	Why is it proving so hard for Britain to build more than one
1:34.3	high-speed railway? Christian Wal-Mart is an expert on British railways and you may have
1:39.2	heard him talking about their parlous state a couple of weeks ago on the bunker.
1:42.3	He's back in the studio now. Welcome back,
1:44.7	Christian. Very pleased to be back. How long is it since HS2 was first mooted?
1:49.6	Oh, well, quite a long time. I mean, one could say first mooted would be back in the previous century.
1:56.5	I remember when Alistair Darling was a transport secretary in the first decade of the 21st century and we'd have press conferences in the days
2:06.2	when I had press conference something that doesn't happen these days and we'd always ask
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