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Date of upload: Feb 6, 2023 ^^
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I am Japanese and live in an area that does not benefit from the Shinkansen. It seems that the Shinkansen will finally be built in 10 years to my city, but I really wanted it to be built 40 years ago. During those 40 years, the economic disparity with other regions widened, young people fled to Tokyo and other places, and lost its vitality. Making HS2 is not wrong. The mistake is that while France and Germany were laying the groundwork for high-speed rail, the UK neglected to do so.
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I work on HS2 at the moment. I think one of the biggest issues is that everything has been sucontracted out and as little as possible is being done in house. In theory thats more efficient but its a nightmare and costs increase a lot more when theres inevitable changes. It makes way more sense to me to keep as much of it as possible in house to develop the knowledge so you can continue building in the future
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As a rail engineering student in the US, it's amazing to see how common the mistakes listed in thus video are. The high speed rail project in California faced a lot of similar challenges with mismanagement and trying to tackle too large of a project. I'm not sure if this was an issue with HS2, but in California there was a crippling reliance on expensive consultants for project management, with an incredibly understaffed internal team.
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HS2 has been done in a pretty incompetent manner, but future generations will look at it as a key part of the rail network in the UK. They will wonder how we coped without it. It is coming at a huge cost at a time that is difficult economically, but prices will only rise, so the sooner, the better for this sort of project.
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It can be argued that these kind of projects are also jobs programs. The American's Artemis program comes to mind: woefully over budget but it keeps tens of thousands employed and results in stimulation to the economy. The danger of this is that most government money for these projects falls into the hands of only a few executives, thereby negating trickle down effects.
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It's an aversion to risk, which steadily increased over the past 20 years that I was involved in major railway projects. The design phase for each project gets longer and longer and hence more distant from the original requirements. Also, some parts have to be designed and built together, eg the major stations and approach routes. You can't plan a high-speed route into Euston if you have no idea on the precise alignment of the platform you are aiming to join up to. (The last carriage is designed to leave the platform at 70mph so a smooth alignment is a major requirement.
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@DashCamSheffield
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The Japanese started using the bullet trains back in 1964. We got the HST Intercity 125 in 1975 as a stop gap while we made the APT tilting train, some of those stop gap trains are still in use almost 50yrs later. 60yrs after the Japanese and we're only got 68 miles of high speed rail in HS1. Its pathetic how little our transport system has changed, as we cling onto short term cost saving ideas which cost us far more in the future
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