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by fmajid 581 days ago
Unnecessarily high speeds to show up the Continental duffers raised costs exponentially, then every Tory rural constituency claiming the line would disfigure their pristine arcadia had to be appeased with hugely expensive tunnels. But HS2 Ltd was also incredibly mismanaged. They made sure to rule out the manager of HS1 (successfully delivered under budget) as he would stop the gravy train (pun intended).

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hs2-rishi-sun...

This was confirmed independently to me by a fellow alumni who worked on the project.