HS2 Construction Progress Newton Purcell to Turweston, September 2024
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- An aerial look at the construction (lack of) progress on the utterly pointless HS2 money pit, between Newton Purcell and Turweston. There never was a case for it, and now the government have started to see some sense and canned Phase 2, Phase 1 is looking even more pointless and a waste of our money.
a good piece of video _ shows up the on going works _ as on other sections _ it's about those road/bridge realignments _ once they get finished it'll allow the earthworks to move forward with a clearer view to looking more complete _ enjoying what you post on hs2 _ keep it going👏
Thanks. I'm sure local communities will be delighted when this is finished (or cancelled), as I know it some areas it's causing significant daily disruption for months at a time.
Hi there. went round the diversion of the 421 on sunday and saw the new bridge by Mixbury Lane. caroline.
Had they closed the 421 again? They seem to do it quite a lot, and not sure they are making much use of that haulage road bridge to reduce disruption - but have you noticed how much it sags in the middle!
not noticed the sag. caroline.
@@carolinecleaveley-q1r Once you've noticed, you can't unnotice it. It's even worse if there are trucks going over, probably why they still use the temporary traffic lights there a lot.
So e real progress visible here.
Do you think so? Interesting, as I think progress remains stubbornly slow...
Absolutely butchered our countryside. .
It looks bad at the moment but a large part of the work you can see is for temporary works (access roads, site compounds etc) or for environmental mitigation works - new woodlands, grasslands and aquatic habitat. The extent of that can be seen on the large scale plans of the new route on the www.Gov.uk website.
HS2 itself is no wider than a dual two lane road and the majority of it will be in tunnels or cuttings.
Absolutely, and for a vanity project because we must have a train that can get between Birmingham and London in under an hour, as the existing 1h3m isn't fast enough apparently.
Lost ancient woodland and copses will take 400+yrs to regrow, and any other woodland will take decades...
And it is wider than 2 dual lanes, because of the cuttings you mention. Overall it uses more land than the M40 ever did...
@@theboy-uk The definition of 'ancient woodland' is woodland that has been in existence for 400 years or more. The reason is because it is very unlikely that woodlands older than that will have been planted by human beings. Consequently, you can't create an ancient woodland.
What you can do is transplant soil from ancient woodlands to new woodland areas as this contains the bugs and nutrients necessary for bio-diversity.
HS2 Phase 1 will destroy 0.005% of the UK total of ancient woodland and, should the whole 345 miles of the route be completed it will account for 0.018% of the UK total.
We have 2,200 miles of motorway - all of it wider than HS2 and some (such as the M40 through the Chilterns) double the width. How much ancient woodland was destroyed in constructing that network may never be known.
The use of cuttings as a means of reducing noise and visual intrusion is a major feature of HS2 and shows the far greater environmental constraints put on the project than on late 20c motorway construction. However, motorways such as the M40 have no tunnelled sections over their entire length whereas HS2 has many miles of tunnel where land take is minimal. So, given the much greater width of the M40 and the fact that it does have cuttings and embankments (plus sprawling junctions and service areas), the idea that it has a lower land take than HS2 is questionable.
@@martinsloman6905 I'm glad you finally accept that it will take centuries to restore ancient woodland. By the same token, established woodland, not technically ancient, will take decades, if not centuries to get to the state they were destroy.
Clearly you don't travel on the M40 much. Even the M40 cutting at Stokenchuch - which I think is the cutting you are referring to (the one that's at the start credits of The Vicar of Dibley etc, for those of a certain age) - is significantly narrower than most of the cuttings shown in these videos.
For reference, the M40 didn't touch any ancient woodland.