Good footage. It's peak mess and disruption on the ground atm but hopefully there should be significant progress in another 6 to 12 months. Those viaduct machines move pretty well once they get going, as seen in the Colne valley.
I am concerned to see enormous mountains of earth along the route here. They may be cuttings, but wait a minute, to clear the M42 slip roads by overhead viaduct, the whole section has to be raised above ground. So, not cuttings. They may be embankments, but wait, the plans and sections showed viaducts throughout. So not embankments. But maybe, yes, as a cost saving exercise you see, the viaducts were substituted. Oh I hope not. What an ugly intrusion, removing the through views that the virgin landscape permitted before the works began. And so, by degrees, HS2 looks increasingly like a series of bad planning decisions from the mid twentieth century
They are for the landscaping . When this is finished it will look better than it did before. It was very scrappy before and why the motorways meet here too.
It should have been sold as a high speed transit freight network. It could have reused the former Grand Central rail-bed and not required extensive tunnelling to placate the Tory shires. Lowered the speed specification. Goodness it might have reached all the major cities and regions.
Excellent idea to put a map at the beginning.
Good footage. It's peak mess and disruption on the ground atm but hopefully there should be significant progress in another 6 to 12 months. Those viaduct machines move pretty well once they get going, as seen in the Colne valley.
How anyone can like this waste of land on an island as small as ours is beyond me.
I am concerned to see enormous mountains of earth along the route here. They may be cuttings, but wait a minute, to clear the M42 slip roads by overhead viaduct, the whole section has to be raised above ground. So, not cuttings. They may be embankments, but wait, the plans and sections showed viaducts throughout. So not embankments. But maybe, yes, as a cost saving exercise you see, the viaducts were substituted. Oh I hope not. What an ugly intrusion, removing the through views that the virgin landscape permitted before the works began. And so, by degrees, HS2 looks increasingly like a series of bad planning decisions from the mid twentieth century
They are for the landscaping . When this is finished it will look better than it did before. It was very scrappy before and why the motorways meet here too.
And of course as we all know, its all peaceful bucolic English farmland and there are no motorways or railways there at all.
It should have been sold as a high speed transit freight network. It could have reused the former Grand Central rail-bed and not required extensive tunnelling to placate the Tory shires. Lowered the speed specification. Goodness it might have reached all the major cities and regions.