{"id":37733,"date":"2024-11-18T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T13:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=37733"},"modified":"2024-11-18T08:20:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T13:20:35","slug":"britain-is-building-the-most-expensive-railway-in-the-world-many-people-now-think-its-pointless-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=37733","title":{"rendered":"Britain is building the most expensive railway in the world. Many people now think it\u2019s pointless | CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/221124114852-04-iryo-high-speed-train-spain-1121.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The HS2 high-speed rail line was supposed to re-energize the UK. Instead, controversy, astronomical costs and downsizing have left it struggling for support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/hs2-britain-expensive-high-speed-railway\/index.html\">Britain is building the most expensive railway in the world. Many people now think it\u2019s pointless | CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>With its first \u2014 and now only \u2014 phase currently costed at between $58.4 billion and $70 billion by the UK government, Britain\u2019s High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project now costs an eye watering $416 million per mile.<br><br>For comparison, the Tours-Bordeaux TGV line in France cost around $32-$40 million per mile in the mid-2010s \u2014 although much of that line runs through sparsely populated agricultural regions.<br>&#8230;<br>European high speed rail projects outside the UK typically cost around $66.4 million per mile<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>this gives some broad estimates for the cost of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=34107\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"34107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ontario&#8217;s proposed hs rail from widnsor to montreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HS2 high-speed rail line was supposed to re-energize the UK. Instead,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1237,170],"class_list":["post-37733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-britain","tag-trains","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37736,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37733\/revisions\/37736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}