‘Obscene’ – HS2 on track to cost at least £102bn as minister slams ‘gold-plated folly’

City AM — May 19, 13:08 PM

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HS2 is now poised to cost the taxpayer as much as £102bn and will not deliver its first service from Euston until at least 2040, according to the transport secretary who blasted the project as a “massively over-specced folly”.

Heidi Alexander said the cost of the ill-fated train line was now on course to nearly https://www.cityam.com/obscene-hs2-on-track-to-cost-at-least-102bn-as-minister-slams-gold-plated-folly/">[...]

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