Isn't most the cost due to buying up land though with HS2?
Part of my not entirely ridiculous point was, if you build the ******* thing down underground, you buy up zero land, annoy no one, puts stations as often as you like, into existing infrastructure, and see how much more the cost will be.
What was the cost of Crossrail per km?
I'll see if I can find out and edit.
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Actually now i have looked.
Best you English build nothing....
Best outsource absolutely everything you do to foreign interests as I've absolutely no idea how you manage now slave labour is gone.
Has any of your governments ever build anything on time or on cost?
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from what I can tell Crossrail, even when it goes over time and budget is still only 186K per metre.
That's less than HS2.
HOW THE **** CAN YOU NOT BUILD A BLOODY RAIL LINE OVER THE GROUND FOR LESS THAN A TUNNEL BENEATH THE EARTH?