Thick government

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25962733

I've seen this report that the government blocked from being disseminated. Makes salutary reading. There is a fairly open acceptance that the HS2 project will have little or no economic gain throughout.

 

It might surprise you, but I work for one of the big tech companies, and the staff are now doing more travelling than ever before. Even though I spent 5 years working on a contract and never once went to site, many people are expected on the customer site at least daily and it is severely limiting the career opportunities for those less flexible due to childcare, etc.

 

The big question is not what the HS2 project can do, which is doubtful, it is that our main infrastructure needs repairing first as a priority. Hence the HS2 wants putting on hold until this is done.

 

It'll shove house prices up as folks from expensive areas find they can commute into the capital easier from our Northern wastelands, otherwise **** all benefit.

 

Southern pansies living in the north? Fvck that, it needs to be stopped.

 

You obviously don't do any travelling if you think flying within this country from Yorkshire is a solution.....

 

How will it? You seem to be suggesting that it is just a large project that will be of benefit rather than HS2 itself

 

Why is using a metal tube with wings any more ridiculous than using a metal tube with wheels?

 

Short haul flights.. Climate criminal

 

I'm skeptical about all negative reports about this. A lot connected people in the home counties are very upset about this. Anything to annoy them is fine by me.

 

Because. Money will be spent in all of the area's. It passes through

 

When you say spent in all of the areas how do you mean? Do you mean the construction workers will spend money while they're in the area working? And do you think that will outweigh the loss to the area of building the thing?

 

Would you like to provide some evidence to substantiate this. The governments advisors, at least in private, believe that the best results will be cost neutrality. Independent analysts do not foresee any economic bump for the north. So I'd be interested in where you have got your information to indicate that the project will achieve anything other than cost neutrality.

 

http://www.totalpolitics.com/opinion/176632/do-the-benefits-of-hs2-outweigh-the-costs.thtml

 

Try getting from Barnsley to London before 9 and back home just after 5 on one.

Try again the following day on the other.

Come back and report why you've changed your opinion.

 

Yes you are right the companies and workers. Will spend nothing in the communities. They are based in

 

Ah I take it you don't have evidence that you just think something will be true. I'm ambivalent to the project. I suspect given that we are meant to be in an economic crisis then vanity projects which may or may not have a positive effect shouldn't be top of the priorities list. Work on existing transport infrastructure which is urgent will be shelved to facilitate this project. This work would have been more localised and therefore more likely to create wealth locally or so must empirical evidence shows.