Now that Mr. Johnson has shown "he's no fluke" in British politics, guess it's time to become Caesar:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/worl ... n-hs2.html
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I defer to others, such as "commuter" Mr. Dunville, or our "Subjects" around here as to what chance this project could come to pass.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/worl ... n-hs2.html
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.LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain on Tuesday pushed ahead with a multidecade high-speed rail project that is now expected to cost more than $130 billion, underscoring his commitment to government intervention in rust-belt areas of the middle and north of England that helped elect him.I haven't been in the Mother Country since '86 when my Sister resided there and the railway system had one name whether in Inverness or in Penzance - British Railways.
Delays and spiraling costs had set off a fierce discussion about whether the proposed railroad, called High Speed 2, was a vital investment in Britain’s creaking transport infrastructure or a financially ruinous white elephant. Significant parts of Mr. Johnson’s Conservative Party and several of his closest advisers are passionately opposed to the plan.
But since winning a big parliamentary majority in elections in December, Mr. Johnson has tried to cast himself as a unifying figure who wants to invest in a high-technology economy, spread prosperity outside the south of England, and bring the country together after Brexit.
The line would first link London with Birmingham, the biggest city in the English Midlands, by some time around 2030, before splitting into two northward routes in a second phase scheduled to be completed by 2040...
I defer to others, such as "commuter" Mr. Dunville, or our "Subjects" around here as to what chance this project could come to pass.