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Absolutely a brilliant documentary. Well done.

Looking at the view at Minute 7.10 how can anyone say that HS2 have worked hard to protect the natural environment. Where are all the trees now that once covered that landscape, as in the background by the lakes

What I might be tempted to do is go and look at HS1 and do something similar to this. The first part has been open now for 21 years and this will give your viewers an idea of what things will look like once the trees and plants mature. HS1 sits in the landscape now unnoticed.

Clean-up and habitat restoration is going to be well worth the challenge.

HS2 is basic and essential national infrastructure and must be completed. If we can only get from London to Birmingham in the first instance then so be it. London to Birmingham is the first segment but a later administration will build the subsequent sections once the first segment is complete.

A viaduct built in the traditional style would fit in with the surrounding countryside. Instead we get a giant concrete eyesore.

The artist impressions provided to you some years ago, of the Headhouse constructions, seem to be very close to the actual.

Ludicrous project, but awesome engineering. The viaduct is actually quite beautiful - hoping it doesn't have problems once in service. Very interesting update indeed - thank you!

Amazing project.

Great update. Thanks very much Keith. Look forward to January '25.

I always enjoy these video updates ~ but for gods sake enough of the bloody oak trees. Tree’s are transient fixtures on the landscape. Perhaps you should dwell on the council wasting public money on planning appeals.

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I hate HS2

Its taking way too long to build. Is all the workers stuck in bullet time. Wallace and Gromit could lay tracks faster. No wonder the bill for this project is ballooning. Its some thing we dont need to a place no one wants to go. Even london didnt want it.

Thank you for a very interesting talk through the HS2 route, I can see a lot of work has been put into this video and it will be a great record for years to come, thank you Keith.

And these coffin dodgers are the reason why the people of Leeds and Manchester will not be getting high speed lines to their cities so these tea sipping fascists don’t have to have a frightful train line in their site…

An incredible amount of research. Thank you so much.

Good in depth overview of HS2 in the Chilterns very informative look forward to July 13th instalment. As another commenter said it’s not about the cost it’s about the positive outcome it will bring to the traveller and freight. The existing network is full and new pathing and possible new stations and lines are nigh on impossible to fit with the current network.

Enjoyed that Keith, thank you for taking the time to do this 👍

To my way of thinking spending £7billion a year on improved infrastructure is much better than £49billion on Defence, why is this project is always about cost and not value for money and improvement of connectivity. Our government can happily spend £3.5 billion on the war in Ukraine but not improve life chances of citizens in the north of the UK!!! HS2 is another example of the Tory's appalling waste of money to line private industry's pockets. We need the whole of it and the High Speed across the Northern Corridor so as we can use existing railways to move freight.

its always old codgers talking about how it looks on the landscape there is nothing wrong with the viaduct your time is nearly up let young people make the decision after all they will live with it

Great work Keith. I live very close to the north portal so this info is good.

A very thorough overview and well explained with really useful labels on the photos. Thanks for taking the trouble to make this update.

NEVER TRUST TORIES WITH INFRASTRUCTURE. This lot in charge are especially bad.

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HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

I imagine the Chiltern Tunnels are more expensive to build than the Colne Valley Viaduct Had the track gone through a shallow cutting as on the Paris to Calais route, a massive amount of money would have been saved. I am aware this is a very controversial project, but I feel it must be pointed out. I think the commentary was very balanced however.

The UK has a crushing shortage of houses, business premises, and infrastructure. NIMBYs are the reason.

Very interesting update as always. Seems that this is the peak civil engineering construction period with work beginning to wind down with the completion of the Chiltern Tunnel. Look forward to the July update.

a pity the images ar not sharp

very interesting thank you

Brilliant update. Thanks for making these videos.

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Utter devastation for a vanity project,...

I wonder if there was such an outcry when the M40 was built

Great video footage. Very sad to see all the beautiful countryside where I grew up being destroyed! 👏🏻

Excellent. I'm looking forward to hopping on the train at Euston and alighting in Edinburgh three hours later. This new infrastucture, despite the environmental carnage, is going to level-up the whole of Britain. Oh, right. And then I woke up ...

What crap over priced. LIKE LONDON ULEZ. FULL OF SHI.................... GOVERNMENT WANT TO KILL LOWWER PAID FAMILIES. LABOUR WITH RIGHT WING AGENDA ARE NO BETTER THIER LEADER IS A BLAIRITE SELF RIGHTEOUS . BLAIR honoured him for helpin cover up his killings. I C C Needs try these people. for mass killings lying NO WMD.

If the activity at the Colne Valley viaduct and the West Ruislip tunnel entrance are anything to go by, then you'd hardly know there is a major construction project is underway. The traffic in and out ofthe various sites is rarely seen. The management of this project is superb. Worth every penny.

Sorry, but totally boring !

You are recording a form of this nation's belligerently destructive status quo - down, down, say goodbye to that beautiful gently undulating landscape across the top of the Chilterns to Jones Hill Wood

You could like the ballet if you forget the cost (environment & cash)

The Tories are a worthless , rudderless bunch . They should move over ,we’ve had enough, thanks.

Biggest waste of British tax payers money in history. I would be proud of working on this project and make a video on it. 👎🏻🤮 It’ll be over budget as usual and years late on completion. Britain just cannot deliver construction jobs on time and on budget unlike the German ICE rail project between Düsseldorf - Frankfurt am main - Berlin which was completed on time and on budget and that was about 20 years ago. You should all be ashamed of yourselves 👎🏻

This does seem a bit short-sighted, when the rail line is complete all these construction sites will be landscaped to look just as they did before, if not better. All this "devastation" is temporary. Y'all nimbys arent complaining about the devastation caused by the roads (for example the A413), some of you are even complaining that it will limit the ability to expand the A413, if that awful road got expanded think about the "devastation" that would happen then. I feel that HS2 was marketed so poorly and the braindead nimbyism was so strong that now everyone in those areas are complaining about it without realising the costs they are adding to the project.

Absolutely disgusting the amount of destruction that has been permitted to happen to the natural environment, to create what is already a massively overspent & behind schedule project (and it's nowhere near complete). It's a white elephant, conceived by government imbeciles, who care not one jot how much tax payers money they fritter away on a vanity project that will not deliver any of the supposed benefits. Look at the most recent disastrous rail project 'The Elizabeth Line' another fine example of both financial incompetence & project mismanagement (over budget & a massively delayed opening date). Look at the results too, since opening, barely a day has passed where there haven't been disruptions to the service on this line. There is every reason to suspect that HS2 will be a facsimile. Whoever within government that is responsible for the shambolic HS2 deserves to be strung up.

What an utter farce this ludicrous project has become! Stop it now before it consumes every penny the country can borrow. Criminal negligence charges should be brought against government and senior management.

Very thorough overview. Agree with you that the Little Dean destruction looks shocking and disturbing. I have greater concern for the landscape losses between Jones Hill Wood and South Heath. Nothing will be able to mitigate that. Terrible to think that a tree some distance from the centre line has to be fought for because it is in the way of an earth bund for goodness sake. An earth bund to protect what, nearby residents from the sound or sight of trains? Well would not the nearby residents prefer the tree instead? Or HS2 dig the formation for the trackbed a few metres lower? HS2 has decided the tree is wrong, so HS2 will contrive a way to be rid of it. Oh I dislike that company intensely

It's a great project if Farage hates it. Time to get on with it and all of it, the longer the whining naysayers delay the more it will cost. If Britain is great it should be able to do what Fance, Germany, Spain, Italy and Morocco have done. The tunnel is hidden well under the Chilterns.

The extending time scale is due to the idocy of this government.