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    HS2-Ziel, bis 2033 einsatzbereit zu sein, kann „nicht erreicht werden“

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    3. Zhukov-74 on

      >HS2 has confirmed that its aim to get trains running between Birmingham and London between 2029 and 2033 „cannot be achieved“.

      HS2’s construction lasting another 10 years is quite frankly embarrassing.

    4. Helios_AI on

      >In an end of year update, HS2 insisted that significant progress had been made throughout 2025 with the project now at an „advanced stage of a comprehensive reset“.

      Reads like they’ve almost finished fucking the whole thing off and starting again, a textbook example of progress.

    5. joemac11235 on

      Quite frankly it’s embarrassing that it’s taking this long to build a railway between London and Birmingham and that it’s affecting other projects too

    6. Cielo11 on

      Please don’t forget the Tories kept kicking HS2 down the road because they considered it a toxic subject. Kept trying to reduce it’s budget by cutting it’s size.

      The whole thing has been a mess because of Politicians choosing to do what suits their optics and satisfying their voter base… RATHER THAN INVESTING IN THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY.

      I have no doubt the Right Wing press where always so negative about HS2 because the Tories were toying with the idea of cancelling it. They wanted the public opinion to be negative before they did.

    7. stbens on

      By time it is finished it will be outdated anyway as technology will have moved on.

    8. BuQuChi on

      This is a great advertisement for a communist state model. China wouldn’t accept workers at this level of ineptitude and inefficiency

    9. mainframe_maisie on

      We’re struggling to build a train line from Birmingham to… not even London. Such a mess honestly. And the largest benefits would have been the branches further north, it’s a huge shame they got scrapped

    11. Low_Map4314 on

      Maybe we should get the Chinese in to fix this mess ? Given all they’ve achieved with Infrastructure, our current lot need to be sacked for incompetence.

      /s

    12. the_hucumber on

      Is there any other country where you can pay so much for so long and not get any railway built?

      So far something like £40bn has been spent since 2012 and literally not one train has high speed two’d.

      It’s insane in any other country even the most corrupt you’d have at least some complete track by now even if just to throw off the accusations of corruption.

      Where has all the money gone and why is it most likely a shady business hastily set up by a Tory donor?

    13. A_friendly_goosey on

      We are embarrassing. By the time this shits built we will need another one and China will have a base on Mars. The money and time involved for something so basic from a country that put train tracks GLOBALLY. We are a joke.

    14. WeRegretToInform on

      When NIMBYs put their kids to bed, I bet they tell them if they work really hard, and be a complete pain, when they grow up they can disrupt a project as big as HS2.

      HS2 wasn’t a bad idea in principle. The project management wasn’t great, but wasn’t dreadful. The issue is NIMBY.

    15. ChickenPijja on

      I know this is only a PR thing on the BBC, and not a full technical analysis of it, but which part is delaying it now? I know it’s not as simple as just „throwing a couple of rails down“, but give the general public at least a vague reason why it’s delayed. Is it groundworks, tunnels, stations, legal reasons, signalling, cabling, thefts, rescoping, rolling stock, recruitment or materials? How much is this delay pushing back the first train by? 6 months or 2 years?

    16. radiant_0wl on

      Being late is to be expected, but this comment is alarming

      >Earlier this year, HS2 CEO Mark Wild acknowledged that construction had been „harder than thought“ and „needed a reset“ involving a review of the project’s cost and schedule.

      A review of the projects cost and schedule suggest he has no idea or control of project.

      He ought to know what precisely is causing the delay and any relevant cost knock on impact.

      He doesn’t seem like someone leading the project if he doesn’t know that.

    17. Personal_Lab_484 on

      Surely we can just ignore the nimbys at this point, block all appeal, and build the fucking thing.

    18. kingjoeg on

      I remember this being announced in 2013, and I was starting university in 2014. Can’t believe almost 2 decades later it still won’t have been finished.

    20. Top-Translator3920 on

      It’s genuinely depressing how this project has become a symbol of our inability to get big things done. At this rate, we’ll be watching other countries build entire networks while we’re still debating the same stretch of track. The ambition has completely evaporated, leaving just a monument to mismanagement. What a colossal waste of potential and public money.

    21. Mister_Sith on

      This is the UK writ large regarding major infrastructure. Its constantly meddled with by ministers and politicians who only grasp short term decision making and never long term. The nuclear industry is another example of this. The government talks a big game about needing more people in the industry before the old timers retire, yet as far as I’m aware most large nuclear companies are going through redundancies due to budget issues – budgets that are signed sealed delivered by the government!

    22. PeterG92 on

      HS2 is an embarrassement to this country

      The fact it has taken this long to get it even running is ridiculous. At this rate it won’t be open until 2040

    23. Airurando-jin on

      We could probably learn a few things from Japan here and how they’ve approached the declopme f of their bullet train lines 

    24. bahumat42 on

      This would be forgivable if it was the larger scope.

      This cut down project should not be failing this hard

    25. fsfaith on

      I don’t even know why they even bother with a estimated date. None of these projects have ever met it. It’s not even close.

    26. Tarkedo on

      If this doesn’t trigger the end of the planning madness and NIMBYism, this country is doomed.

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