The story of HS2 is becoming a sorry saga, when it was intended to be a symbol of the future which would transform public transport between London and the North. Sky News takes a look at the original plans, the delays and the spiralling costs.
HS2 was touted as the UK's biggest infrastructure project, supposed to transform public transport between London, the Midlands and the North.The latest blow to the project, as Sky News understands, is the government's intentionThis would shrink the route significantly, with passengers only able to go between a station in a west London suburb to Birmingham - rather than from London Euston to Manchester.
The project has been beset by delays and rising costs, with some estimates now putting the price tag at more than £180bn, a figure that's continuously risen from the 2019 estimate.According to the Independent, cost estimate revealed ditching the northern phase could save up to £34bn.At the time of the 2010 election, when David Cameron said his government would publish plans for a high-speed rail, £20bn was committed for rail infrastructure.
But Lord Berkeley, former deputy chairman of the government's independent review into the project, said it could climb to £107bn.Rosebank won't make big difference to economy - but the politics are significantStations on the first phase of the line were meant to be London Euston, Old Oak Common in west London, Birmingham interchange and Birmingham Curzon Street.
The route had also been planned to go northeast from Birmingham towards the East Midlands Hub at Toton. The pause means Old Oak Common, in the capital's western suburbs, will be the railway's only London station when services to and from Birmingham Curzon Street begin between 2029 and 2033.What will replace the Birmingham-Manchester line?
Later, under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, it was confirmed that the line would be built in two phases. Reasons for the delay included a year spent revising cost and schedule estimates for phase 1 and more time being needed for construction at various sites.
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