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[Nickbat]

HS2 has a new boss...on a salary of £591,000 a year.

http://news.sky.com/story/1146341/hs2s-new-boss-appointed-on-591k-salary

Is there anything about this project that is not humungously expensive? 

[tunnie]

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

[TheBoy]

HS2 Ltd will milk it for all its worth, until common sense prevails, and the project is canned.

[chrisgixer]

Nobody wants it, do they?

Shambles, reality check, blah....

[MR MISTER]

Nobody wants it, do they?

Shambles, reality check, blah....

I'll be dead so I don't care.

[Rods2]

In the late 1960's and early 1970's (when STEMO's age was still in double digits, just ) 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?

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. 

[chrisgixer]

...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.

[Varche]

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.