A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station

Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by jnty on Thursday August 22, 2019 @09:48AM (#20768014)

What part of 'let's communicate the case for our new infrastructure' translates to 'shut up'? If anything, they're saying they need to move away from steamroll it through and try and make the case to local communities that they'll benefit from this and should be singing its praises.

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Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by tempguy9999 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:12PM (#20769630)

Provide reliable, independent costings and benefits for the project. That's how you make a case.

If you can't make a case then it's time to start up the PR bullshit, which uses nice words and breathless aspirations. It tends to sound like this: "Yet the story doesn’t seem to be getting through. As engineers, it is not just our duty to create new infrastructure, it is also our duty to communicate its purpose. Helping the British public to get behind High Speed 2 must be a priority for our industry if we are to truly make this megaproject a success"

Let's go through that:

"Yet the story doesn’t seem to be getting through"

why not?

"it is not just our duty to create new infrastructure, it is also our duty to communicate its purpose"

It's purpose is clear. It's a railway. So something else is going wrong with your story that you don't want to talk about.

The last sentence is content free. It says zilch.

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