People saying that we should improve the existing network have no idea how busy the uk rail network actually is. You dont send motorway traffic on winding B-roads but thats what we've been doing with trains in this country for the last 70 years.
@@stephencowper396 HS2 is nothing to do with travelling from Birmingham to London, it will also have train services from Manchester, Liverpool and Scotland running on it and it is being built due to the fact that two upgrades took place to try and improve the WEST COast Mainline and both failed so the only solution was to build HS2
Alas it will no longer go north. They started at the wrong end as usual!! It is a worry that even from Oxford it makes sense to go by bus to Birmingham and not the train (£10 difference in cost even with a railcard).
@@janeknight3597 So how did you come to that conclusion, they did not start from any end in particular as contruction was similtaniousely started fro Birmingham going North towards Lichfield and South towards London, at the same time they started construction from London working North and construction between Birmingham and Old Oak Common and all they are doing at the moment is tunneling the required tunnels, any bridges and viaducts such as the Colne Valley Viaduct and contructin 3 major stations on the line, Birmingham Curzon Street, Birmingham Interchange and London Old Oak Common and once more progress on these come to light they will restart on London Euston and once all this has been done so will track and other services be installed. So why should it of been started in Manchester as it would not of got anywhere due to the fact all the major construction is arround the Chilterns and Birmingham area and the trains will run to Manchester via a link at Handsacre in Staffordshire allowing HS2 trains to join and leave the existing WCML, but what has Oxford got to do with HS2 !!!
Port Talbot, Llanwern and Scumthorpe are practically being shut down, so where are we getting the expensive steel for this out-of-control project from(?)
Its someones job to catch and re install the teflon bearing plates as the bridge moves along, im suprised this simple solution was employed and if it works it works.
why does HS2 require so many different designs of viaduct, surely a single design would be more cost effective? The entire Riyadh Metro uses a common system of viaduct and was all built onsite.
For the same reason the Countries waste collection bins all differ. We are incapable of standardising anything unlike the Germans who use a bit more common sense which makes things cheaper.
Seeing the HS2 sites it does look like every possible construction vehicle, piece of kit and civil engineering technique has been included, and usually has been bought new, so no wonder the price is so high. See the same on many long running road improvements (eg A465 Heads of the Valleys dualling in South Wales) and repair schemes. Lots of kit, unnecessary complexity and thick layer of management and subcontracting.
Well I think Navies and picks and shovels achieved amazingly more in the industrial revolution. We have lost our way, clever as each element is.@@peterwilliamallen1063
I love this! And my videos of the progress on the Colne Valley viaduct are my most popular (I am PetertheRock). Let me know when anything significant is about to happen!
So how come other countrys can hsve state of the art infrastructure. Too many nay sayers. And government tampering. I will be using it for one when completed
Rubbish. The compo paid out was over market value and the vast majority were happy with it. There are however a significant number of homes and businesses who are adjacent to the construction and receive no compo. Its the ones who did not get it, you could feel sorry for.
Now the British public can see one of the main reasons for the huge cost of HS2: the need for loads of bridges, viaducts & tunnels so the track remains relatively level from end to end! Setting aside our disgust over the huge cost of the project (and the fact that Boris Johnson is the person responsible for it going ahead), who wants to spend perhaps half the journey in a carriage passing through tunnel after tunnel. Not me!
No it won't as London Euston is now being built plus the fact all Hi Speed non stop train operated by Avanti West Coast Railways will run on the HS2 route and not the WCML into London Euston as London OOC is not desighned as a Terminal station so trains woul not be ablet to terminate there, so yes HS2 trains to London will be quicker than the WCML because HS2 trains will travel at 225 MPH as opposed to the WCML trains 125 MPH and very few Avanti West Coast long distance trains will use the WCML route once HS2 is opened
@@JohnSmith-xl8cb Well I am sorry to disapoint you but Euston is going to happen, they have just bored the service tunnel from OOC to Euston after that the main tunnels will be bored as London Old Oak Common can not be used as a terminal station due to the fact it is desighned as a through station with out train servicing and storage facilities and the Government backed down about a month ago after being consulted by the building contracts managers stating it would cost even more with the delays so yes Euston is going ahead as there are plans also to revive the HS2 line to Manchester from Birmingham after intervention by the West Midlands Mayor Andy Street and the Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham have come up with a plant revive it
This is another bullshit HS2 update. £66.6 billion, and counting, to build a high speed railway from a station some way away from Euston, to Birmingham, a “huge distance” of 134 miles. Utter bollocks! It won’t reach Euston until 2034, apparently 😂😂😂😂🤦🤦. The only positive is Alstom, Crewe Works, will build and maintain the bogies, 👍👍. Good show! 😂😂
@@KeVIn-pm7pu it would've been better if they just kept with the original plan and didnt scrap 75% of it, it would've majorly benefitted british infrastructure way more than it is now, so many road projects go overbudget yet i dont see anyone complaining. the original hs2 would've been the greatest infrastructure project of the 21st century in the uk and it's just been wasted by politicians who cant even for a moment think about the future of the country
How depressing that they built the thing using rust coloured steel. It looks bad at the start and stays that way. Given the effort that goes into such a project, leaving it as rust stained seems such a basic error.
I know it's weathering steel but I just don't like it. I'm old enough to recall when plain concrete was the go to external finish for public buildings in the 60s. The big appeal was the low cost and if it looks ugly, then who cares? It turns out we all did. Now we do the same with steel. The contractor saves £ millions and we get a rusty structure, which we are told is not ugly, even though we can all see it is. Funny how much PR hype is put into selling the visual aesthetic of these projects before they are built, though. Why don't we buy rust coloured cars?
The existing railway network is completely at capacity. I think it could definitely have been built cheaper, but no, a new line is essential. We can't keep using main lines from two hundred years ago and expect them to provide enough speed and capacity for the modern day.
Just like in Germany. Pointless highspeed 💩 noone needs here and there but the commuters that people do need fall appart. One reason for this is that the German state legaly used pay a lot for new construction projects but nothing for maintaining the existing infrastructure *but* these new projects are still not free for DB and so billions that could have been *invested* in commuters that make people come to work on time stress-free and therefore add a lot to the overall economy are beeing *consumed* by prestigeous nonesense that may make Americans jealous but not anyone else since how tf you want to flex with a damn train in the 21st century? Maybe if its magnetic or has a fancy restaurant on bord or something like that but the ICE has none of that. Therefore its seats lack any back-support and are therefore worse then the ones in commuters and even some soccer stadiums.
@@l.b.3416 Have you seen the trains on the WCML? They are absolutely packed. (I would know, I see them get cancelled and delayed really often when I pass by stations on that line) They have such little room left for expansion, it's extremely expensive to do that. That is what HS2 is relieving. Making a parallel but faster, higher capacity line so that passengers can actually go places and free up spaces on the old WCML. No, it is not some useless vanity project. I don't know how it is in Germany, but living here, seeing those packed trains, seeing the potential freed capacity, and seeing how quickly I could get into London with it? HS2 cannot come soon enough for me.
The leg between Birmingham and London Old oak commons will be completed and I'm optimists and think that trains will be running on this leg by 2028 or 2029 at the latest. If we get a Labour government, I suspect this is how it will go down, They will commit to building a through station at Manchester and surrounding infrastructure to support HS2 and HS3 eventually arriving into the city. They will reverse the government downgrading of HS infrastructure around Birmingham, so what is built is able to support infrastructure able to support further extension of high speed rail lines to the North in the thirties and forties. They will also authorise the construction the line to Crewe and stop there. Both Labour and Tory will both authorise the construction of the the tunnels to Euston in 2026/7 as delaying them for longer than this will add expense for no reason. Euston station rebuilding program won't probably start until the mid 2030s and by then the government will commit to the complete rebuilding of the entire station as a joint private/public project. I reckon by 2028 there will be a solid campaign to push the finance of the building of he Birmingham to Leeds High Speed Line, probably rebranded. An government will probably commit to this sometime in 2030s and before Crossrail 2.
It hasn't been cancelled, but cuts off (rather meaninglessly) at Birmingham. A decision that I hope the next government will reverse and reinstate its full length.
@@Paul_Harper And wrong again, HS2 hasn't been cut off at Birmingham or Cancelled. HS2 carries on past Birmingham to Handsacre in Staffordshire near Lichfield where it will connect onto the WCML and if it did terminate at Birmingham which it is not why would it be meaningless
@@peterwilliamallen1063.. what you've failed to mention (again), is that when HS2 trains "connect" to the WCML, they WON'T be high speed - they'll be no faster than the current service making a mockery of the "HS" logo.
@@CRIMSONANT1Sorry James can you read I havent failed to ay any thing, Connect / Join is the same thing the point is the HS2 line will join/ connect to the WCML at a junction at Handsacre in Staffordshire where HS2 trains will leave/ Join the WCML from/To the HS2 line where by they will then run via the WCML to Manchester/ Liverpool. People are just assuming that they won't do 125 MPH on the WCML as they have not like your self looked into it properly. The tilt on Pendolino's was not desighned so they could do 125 MPH on the WCML, it was because Richard Branson and Virgin Trains that purchased them expected through WCML upgrades for the speed on the WCML to be raised to 140 MPH which did not happen so the speed was bought down to 125 MPH and the only passenger trains that do 110 MPH on the WCML are the semi fast LNWR train services which are basically just EMU trains and the only other operator on the WCML in Avanti West Cooast. With the modern technology of these 250 MPH HS2 trains and the fact they may not stop between Crew and Manchester no one knows wheter they wont be able to do 125 MPH between Handsacre and Manchester plus the fact tat this is a short section of WCML do they realy need to do 125 MPH. The problem here is if it was not for the Government listning to NIMBY's like your self may be the HS2 section between Lichfield and Manchester may have been bulit, instead the money is being wasted on potholes.
@@Paul_Harper Argh, so they cancelled the important bit, and built the less useful bit. Yeah, that sounds about right. HS 2 needs to be either finished, or at worst, built at a slower pace, but to cancel HS2 is a terrible idea.
Impressive big engineering. Now rip it all out, no one ever wanted it built. Total waste of time and money and expertise. Undo the destructive impassable scar on the land. Clean the ground and return it to nature.
@@leobrooks5717 Farmland is as important and also has margins, hedgerows etc. Some government schemes even pay for environmental set aside. Sorry there is no excuse based on farm land and our food supply not mattering! Roads we can cross. Apart from as bad motorways. Rail lines are appalling barriers as bad as rivers. Worse, they are just put in by man! Especially in these modern days of deterring the use of footpath crossings.
"Roads We can cross" no actually you most often cant. Not without significant danger to You. Plus they scar Nature far more than any rail could especiall because of the inefficency of cars and roads @@nicholaspostlethwaite9554
I love how we share all our transport spending equally around the UK.
People saying that we should improve the existing network have no idea how busy the uk rail network actually is. You dont send motorway traffic on winding B-roads but thats what we've been doing with trains in this country for the last 70 years.
Exactly why they need to improve the existing network, not everyone wants to go from London to Birmingham or vice versa
@@stephencowper396 HS2 is nothing to do with travelling from Birmingham to London, it will also have train services from Manchester, Liverpool and Scotland running on it and it is being built due to the fact that two upgrades took place to try and improve the WEST COast Mainline and both failed so the only solution was to build HS2
Like what you say. Improve the existing lines and longer trains has already been done. West Coast line is full .
Alas it will no longer go north. They started at the wrong end as usual!!
It is a worry that even from Oxford it makes sense to go by bus to Birmingham and not the train (£10 difference in cost even with a railcard).
@@janeknight3597 So how did you come to that conclusion, they did not start from any end in particular as contruction was similtaniousely started fro Birmingham going North towards Lichfield and South towards London, at the same time they started construction from London working North and construction between Birmingham and Old Oak Common and all they are doing at the moment is tunneling the required tunnels, any bridges and viaducts such as the Colne Valley Viaduct and contructin 3 major stations on the line, Birmingham Curzon Street, Birmingham Interchange and London Old Oak Common and once more progress on these come to light they will restart on London Euston and once all this has been done so will track and other services be installed. So why should it of been started in Manchester as it would not of got anywhere due to the fact all the major construction is arround the Chilterns and Birmingham area and the trains will run to Manchester via a link at Handsacre in Staffordshire allowing HS2 trains to join and leave the existing WCML, but what has Oxford got to do with HS2 !!!
Port Talbot, Llanwern and Scumthorpe are practically being shut down, so where are we getting the expensive steel for this out-of-control project from(?)
Incredible engineering 👌
Its someones job to catch and re install the teflon bearing plates as the bridge moves along, im suprised this simple solution was employed and if it works it works.
Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best
If the simple way works best…then use it. Simple decision 👍
why does HS2 require so many different designs of viaduct, surely a single design would be more cost effective? The entire Riyadh Metro uses a common system of viaduct and was all built onsite.
Probably the difference in the topography and load bearing substrates of the different sites is the main reason.
They have to justify all the architects and designers and extortionate costs somehow 😅
@@WindyJAMiller. The Arabs had to import better quality sand from Australia apparently.
For the same reason the Countries waste collection bins all differ. We are incapable of standardising anything unlike the Germans who use a bit more common sense which makes things cheaper.
Amazing works well done all!!
Great engineering feat,should have built hs2 years ago.
It’s gutting that such great engineering and construction is mostly going to waste.
Seeing the HS2 sites it does look like every possible construction vehicle, piece of kit and civil engineering technique has been included, and usually has been bought new, so no wonder the price is so high. See the same on many long running road improvements (eg A465 Heads of the Valleys dualling in South Wales) and repair schemes. Lots of kit, unnecessary complexity and thick layer of management and subcontracting.
must be a dream project to work on for a lot of people and good for the CV :)
So how did you think it was going to be built with a load of Navies and picks and shovels
Well I think Navies and picks and shovels achieved amazingly more in the industrial revolution. We have lost our way, clever as each element is.@@peterwilliamallen1063
@@peterwilliamallen1063 .. *NAVVIES .. not "navies" 😉
@@CRIMSONANT1 Before being childish, get your info correct on HS2 just because of an accidental mis spealing on not proof checking.
Precision engineering. They must designed with expansion and shrinkage in mind.
I wonder if they even kept to budget with the production of these youtube videos... looks pretty fancy
Turn the bloody music off
I love this! And my videos of the progress on the Colne Valley viaduct are my most popular (I am PetertheRock). Let me know when anything significant is about to happen!
Love your coverage of it
I haven't seen any of your Colne Valley videos.
Big 👍 for monsieur Eiffel
I love this , it’s coming to my city Birmingham, don’t care about the rest of you guys
Does this bridge have 1 or 2 tracks?
It will be double track, in the UK no main line is single track
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Good. It just look so narrow this bridge element. Maybe they use 2 elements in parallel?
So how come other countrys can hsve state of the art infrastructure. Too many nay sayers. And government tampering. I will be using it for one when completed
Epic waste of both physical effort and precious epic financial resources *
Can’t believe this will save carbon emissions
Yep as HS2 is an Electric run Railway line only
DIGUSTING WHAT THESE WAGE ROBBERS HAVE DONE
HS2 has been accused of intimidating landowners who raised compensation cases against them with their MP.
Rubbish. The compo paid out was over market value and the vast majority were happy with it. There are however a significant number of homes and businesses who are adjacent to the construction and receive no compo. Its the ones who did not get it, you could feel sorry for.
How’s the budget side of things working out?
NOT
Wonder if it would of played out differently if they started in the north and headed south🤔
@@andycrask3531 Heh, not like the government would ever approve that.
Should've got China to build it. They've already built over 40,000 km of track.
Maybe practically speaking, but that's politically quite hazardous. I think Japan might have been a better fit.
after horizon?, japan is as trustworthy as china @@zhongcena
Now the British public can see one of the main reasons for the huge cost of HS2: the need for loads of bridges, viaducts & tunnels so the track remains relatively level from end to end! Setting aside our disgust over the huge cost of the project (and the fact that Boris Johnson is the person responsible for it going ahead), who wants to spend perhaps half the journey in a carriage passing through tunnel after tunnel. Not me!
Waste of everything, HS2 will be slower than WCML to to get to central London😂😂😂😂😂😂
No it won't as London Euston is now being built plus the fact all Hi Speed non stop train operated by Avanti West Coast Railways will run on the HS2 route and not the WCML into London Euston as London OOC is not desighned as a Terminal station so trains woul not be ablet to terminate there, so yes HS2 trains to London will be quicker than the WCML because HS2 trains will travel at 225 MPH as opposed to the WCML trains 125 MPH and very few Avanti West Coast long distance trains will use the WCML route once HS2 is opened
@@peterwilliamallen1063Euston not going to happen
@@JohnSmith-xl8cb Well I am sorry to disapoint you but Euston is going to happen, they have just bored the service tunnel from OOC to Euston after that the main tunnels will be bored as London Old Oak Common can not be used as a terminal station due to the fact it is desighned as a through station with out train servicing and storage facilities and the Government backed down about a month ago after being consulted by the building contracts managers stating it would cost even more with the delays so yes Euston is going ahead as there are plans also to revive the HS2 line to Manchester from Birmingham after intervention by the West Midlands Mayor Andy Street and the Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham have come up with a plant revive it
seems like the gov and HS2 think bigger, longer, flashier = better.
Well in this particular case it is.
Struggling to understand your point here, do you propose they infill that entire area so they don't need a viaduct?
On the railways it usually is.
Well if the gov thinks anything its usually a scam or a total ripoff, or both..
This is another bullshit HS2 update. £66.6 billion, and counting, to build a high speed railway from a station some way away from Euston, to Birmingham, a “huge distance” of 134 miles. Utter bollocks! It won’t reach Euston until 2034, apparently 😂😂😂😂🤦🤦. The only positive is Alstom, Crewe Works, will build and maintain the bogies, 👍👍. Good show! 😂😂
yawn 🙄
ADD 10m for the new door
Just to get to Birmingham a bit quicker.
And to increase rail capacity for goods and public transit which is currently already at the limit.
@@KeVIn-pm7pu it would've been better if they just kept with the original plan and didnt scrap 75% of it, it would've majorly benefitted british infrastructure way more than it is now, so many road projects go overbudget yet i dont see anyone complaining. the original hs2 would've been the greatest infrastructure project of the 21st century in the uk and it's just been wasted by politicians who cant even for a moment think about the future of the country
@@mrrowwmeoww Agreed. tell that to the tories
"Just to get to Birmingham a bit quicker" I'd pay just to have a guarantee that I never need to go there!
@@raydavison2972 Oh what a shame thousands do travel to Birmingham, so what is your problem with Birmingham
How depressing that they built the thing using rust coloured steel. It looks bad at the start and stays that way. Given the effort that goes into such a project, leaving it as rust stained seems such a basic error.
Probably makes actual rust less visible and I personally quite like the colour so I guess its up to personal opinion
Probably not worth coating it before and during construction, I imagine it will be blasted and coated when it's all done.
It’s weathering steel. Worth a Google.
I know it's weathering steel but I just don't like it. I'm old enough to recall when plain concrete was the go to external finish for public buildings in the 60s. The big appeal was the low cost and if it looks ugly, then who cares? It turns out we all did. Now we do the same with steel. The contractor saves £ millions and we get a rusty structure, which we are told is not ugly, even though we can all see it is. Funny how much PR hype is put into selling the visual aesthetic of these projects before they are built, though.
Why don't we buy rust coloured cars?
They’ll buy some tins off Facebook lanoguard🤭🤭🤭🤭
Disgraceful waste of funds. Completely unnecessary project consuming money that could be better used on the existing rail network.
The existing railway network is completely at capacity. I think it could definitely have been built cheaper, but no, a new line is essential. We can't keep using main lines from two hundred years ago and expect them to provide enough speed and capacity for the modern day.
Wrong on so many levels. This Project is necessary. And you dont have to cut it to improve existing rail infastructure.😊
@@KeVIn-pm7puIs gut Kevin. Du hast doch schon keinen Plan von dem was in deinem eigenen Land los is.
Just like in Germany. Pointless highspeed 💩 noone needs here and there but the commuters that people do need fall appart. One reason for this is that the German state legaly used pay a lot for new construction projects but nothing for maintaining the existing infrastructure *but* these new projects are still not free for DB and so billions that could have been *invested* in commuters that make people come to work on time stress-free and therefore add a lot to the overall economy are beeing *consumed* by prestigeous nonesense that may make Americans jealous but not anyone else since how tf you want to flex with a damn train in the 21st century? Maybe if its magnetic or has a fancy restaurant on bord or something like that but the ICE has none of that. Therefore its seats lack any back-support and are therefore worse then the ones in commuters and even some soccer stadiums.
@@l.b.3416 Have you seen the trains on the WCML? They are absolutely packed. (I would know, I see them get cancelled and delayed really often when I pass by stations on that line) They have such little room left for expansion, it's extremely expensive to do that. That is what HS2 is relieving. Making a parallel but faster, higher capacity line so that passengers can actually go places and free up spaces on the old WCML. No, it is not some useless vanity project. I don't know how it is in Germany, but living here, seeing those packed trains, seeing the potential freed capacity, and seeing how quickly I could get into London with it? HS2 cannot come soon enough for me.
This will be cancelled by years end.....
The leg between Birmingham and London Old oak commons will be completed and I'm optimists and think that trains will be running on this leg by 2028 or 2029 at the latest.
If we get a Labour government, I suspect this is how it will go down,
They will commit to building a through station at Manchester and surrounding infrastructure to support HS2 and HS3 eventually arriving into the city.
They will reverse the government downgrading of HS infrastructure around Birmingham, so what is built is able to support infrastructure able to support further extension of high speed rail lines to the North in the thirties and forties.
They will also authorise the construction the line to Crewe and stop there.
Both Labour and Tory will both authorise the construction of the the tunnels to Euston in 2026/7 as delaying them for longer than this will add expense for no reason.
Euston station rebuilding program won't probably start until the mid 2030s and by then the government will commit to the complete rebuilding of the entire station as a joint private/public project.
I reckon by 2028 there will be a solid campaign to push the finance of the building of he Birmingham to Leeds High Speed Line, probably rebranded. An government will probably commit to this sometime in 2030s and before Crossrail 2.
Source?
Lol no it won't
@@GIOGStheir imagination
No it won't, it's already been paid for
But HS2 has been cancelled. Why are they still building it? It’s pointless now.
It hasn't been cancelled, but cuts off (rather meaninglessly) at Birmingham. A decision that I hope the next government will reverse and reinstate its full length.
@@Paul_Harper And wrong again, HS2 hasn't been cut off at Birmingham or Cancelled. HS2 carries on past Birmingham to Handsacre in Staffordshire near Lichfield where it will connect onto the WCML and if it did terminate at Birmingham which it is not why would it be meaningless
@@peterwilliamallen1063.. what you've failed to mention (again), is that when HS2 trains "connect" to the WCML, they WON'T be high speed - they'll be no faster than the current service making a mockery of the "HS" logo.
@@CRIMSONANT1Sorry James can you read I havent failed to ay any thing, Connect / Join is the same thing the point is the HS2 line will join/ connect to the WCML at a junction at Handsacre in Staffordshire where HS2 trains will leave/ Join the WCML from/To the HS2 line where by they will then run via the WCML to Manchester/ Liverpool. People are just assuming that they won't do 125 MPH on the WCML as they have not like your self looked into it properly.
The tilt on Pendolino's was not desighned so they could do 125 MPH on the WCML, it was because Richard Branson and Virgin Trains that purchased them expected through WCML upgrades for the speed on the WCML to be raised to 140 MPH which did not happen so the speed was bought down to 125 MPH and the only passenger trains that do 110 MPH on the WCML are the semi fast LNWR train services which are basically just EMU trains and the only other operator on the WCML in Avanti West Cooast. With the modern technology of these 250 MPH HS2 trains and the fact they may not stop between Crew and Manchester no one knows wheter they wont be able to do 125 MPH between Handsacre and Manchester plus the fact tat this is a short section of WCML do they realy need to do 125 MPH. The problem here is if it was not for the Government listning to NIMBY's like your self may be the HS2 section between Lichfield and Manchester may have been bulit, instead the money is being wasted on potholes.
@@Paul_Harper Argh, so they cancelled the important bit, and built the less useful bit. Yeah, that sounds about right. HS 2 needs to be either finished, or at worst, built at a slower pace, but to cancel HS2 is a terrible idea.
Impressive big engineering.
Now rip it all out, no one ever wanted it built. Total waste of time and money and expertise. Undo the destructive impassable scar on the land. Clean the ground and return it to nature.
That's farmland, not nature. And there's roads cutting through it anyway.
@@leobrooks5717 Farmland is as important and also has margins, hedgerows etc. Some government schemes even pay for environmental set aside. Sorry there is no excuse based on farm land and our food supply not mattering!
Roads we can cross. Apart from as bad motorways. Rail lines are appalling barriers as bad as rivers. Worse, they are just put in by man! Especially in these modern days of deterring the use of footpath crossings.
"Roads We can cross" no actually you most often cant. Not without significant danger to You. Plus they scar Nature far more than any rail could especiall because of the inefficency of cars and roads @@nicholaspostlethwaite9554