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Sunak has derailed GB.

As i make deliveries near by, amazing to see progress been make,as I have interested in civil engineering projects

I love the railways, and fully support HS2, but can someone please explain why there needs to be so much destruction of the area surrounding the tracks. It's a two track railway for heavens sake, so why is all the earth works along its length 300 to 500 meters wide. And why is there not even a meter of track laid yet?

So London to just Birmingham. Who really does this commute frequently enough to have any benefit? It'll go down as a massive waste of time and money. It's frankly pathetic.

I should get used to noise because it will be kicking out 140 decibels of noise pollution once it’s running So all the countryside that they have trashed will be forever marred no matter how many trees they plant

Indisputably fantastic engineering but a tragic shame all this money skill and technology wasn’t directed towards projects we really really need such as producing sustainable energy alternatives, our rapidly declining water services and local transport improvements, which HS2 is not. Environmentally catastrophic and so much else in desperate need of investment and improvement in our country.

I can imagine that when the guy who thought of sliding bridges first told his bosses they all said "You are bonkers!" But that is just amazing engineering.

I've often wondered why the government wasted all our money on that shit project.

100 Billion London to Birmingham are you kidding 😅😅😅

Absolute waste of money that the country can’t afford as well as unethical practices and clearly not good for environment.

I totally agree with the comments by supporters to build out the HS2 system. I am in awe of how well your system was planned and thought out and enjoy the updates. Looking on as a native Californian living in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1962, the naysayers and short-sighted citizens here have been arguing about mass transit since the 1950s. The original BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) system funding was barely passed by the voters way back in the 1960s and 2 South Bay Counties opted out of the system. This resulted in the big mistake not bringing BART (the 1950s/60s designed rapid transit) around the Bay at the onset (sound familiar?). People at that time were complaining about the cost and what would happen to the suburbs. As I'm writing this, the approximate 6 mile connection to San Jose is estimated to cost almost $13 BILLION dollars! The entire BART system in 1976 was approximately $1.6 Billion Dollars (about $12 Billion in 2023 dollars). My point is this - don't be as stupid and short-sighted as some of your American descendants (lol) - unless the population in the UK and around the world starts declining, all parts of your system will need to get built out as originally planned. It will just cost more and more as time goes on. I am sick and tired of the conservatives here complaining about how high their taxes are when they fight to get their $50 Million dollar mansions highlighted in the Wall Street Journal and regular people have to live with substandard public transportation. It sounds like you have something similar going on. Oh, yes - for those of you who keep track of transportation around the world, here in California (with about 10% of the U.S. population) we are arguing about CA High Speed Rail. UGH! It seems that human being never change! BTW - my wife and I absolutely loved our 2019 visit to London and to Warner Brothers Studio/Harry Potter. Loved the food, people and history. 2019 is when I first heard about and saw HS2 at the Euston Station. We also enjoyed being able to take public transport everywhere - even when it involved a lot of walking between stations. 🙂

Manchester needs to develop strong horizontal ties with Liverpool, Sheffield and Leeds. It will be more beneficial to the North to be connected than to become sleeper towns for London. BUT, once that has been achieved, then it's essential faster connections are achieved as originally envisioned by HS2 for max gains. Coud we do both at once? It'd be a dream! We're gonna need a lot of private investment to pull it off; hopefully Burnham and Andy Street successor will manage to do it.

Two things we dont want ,hs2 and the bbc.

how this the current structure fit in, it would have been nice to superimpose the plans and the linking parts, it currently looks a little lost without context imho

I hope with more money funding and donations that they will be able to extend it to Manchester and Leeds.

Years of misery ahead for GWR users, getting diverted to an overcrowded Euston and scaled back Elizabeth Line services whilst the track is skewed.

Incredible world class example of catastrophic large infrastructure project fail. Partly stemming from the initial hubristic brief to be 'the fastest" - meaning insane choices on route (less bends, more precious habitat destruction, more tunnels). The whole thing given free reign to sink billions into a construction black hole ( who can even begin to imagine the wealth generated for certain stakeholders), inevitably resulting in a political backlash. The people responsible should be ashamed.

Sadly, sounds like this video was made BEFORE the culling of the rest of the route. Now just connect two big cities that already had fairly decent connections. Unless this links MANY places, it is a marvellous waste of a great opportunity.

Who ever wants to go to Old Oak?

Wow London gets another hyper connected hub how convenient for the south east of England

We don't hear much about the projected Interchange station to the east of Birmingham much on here!

What the hell's a SOO-BAHV?

Think of all the displaced homeowners who suffered for this vanity project.

would be nice if we could design a nice station facade for once

How will hs2 get to Crewe

Heathrow Express is direct between Paddington and Heathrow. Old Oak common will either slow it down or you'll have to go into Paddington first. So how is it only 10 minutes away from Heathrow?

Put Manchester and Leeds back on the map

is there any point showing what the station could look like ,you have still got a hole to dig out and that is taking forever a few more years yet,thats what you get from british workers,everything about face

The map at 0.08 is misleading, implying connectivity/interchanges with nearby lines that won't actually be there even five years after it is completed. It isn't going to be linked into the London overground, Central line, Southern line or the West coast main line as implied in the graphic. 🙁 Upon opening HS2 at Old Oak Common will only link with the GWR mainline and the Elizabeth line. Are they even making provision to link into all the other nearby lines to make it a truly well connected high speed hub? Old Oak Common - a missed opportunity.

“Connecting West London to the West Midlands. And Beyond.” You sure about the “And Beyond” bit?

All of that money spent would have been better invested in hyperloop transportation systems. Why waste money on old technology

Ah yes Old Oak Common. Aka Wormwood scrubs

#1 the station looks awful. #2 the’superhub’ needs to be at Euston NOT Old Oak Common…and for the total cost the whole project is a joke!

How many weeks now until Keir Starmer?

An embarrassing joke.

So they travel to London but cannot get into the city they have to stop out side at Old Oak Common, then they have to suffer the 20 mph crawl into the city form there, what a complete Ba**s up

Will there be parking so that we only have to rely on one form of public transport when planning our journeys from locations outside Central London?

ok cool, now bring back the manchester and leeds branches

While the Camp hill line upgrade in Birmingham is struggling for a few million pounds of funding, this station seems to have no limits on how much is spent on it. London first, the rest of the country second.

No direct connections from the South Coast. No benefit for those living in places like Brighton, Portsmouth, Southampton and Bournemouth. I will still be forced to fly from Southampton to the north of England and Scotland.

Wo

The transition from the GWR to HS2 platforms via the classic art on the newspaper was ace! Still pissed how much the government ahs cut this back, stupid short-sighted ideological approach. Hopefully whoever follows is able to restore at least some of it, we need to get the space back for local services and especially freight.

Central line? Overground?

How about connecting the North properly? Anyway all will be lost if LegoHead and his party get in.