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Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by willyt on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:31AM (#20775798)
LGV Mediterranean has to negotiate the hilly terrain in southern France. Plenty of tunnels and viaducts. €20m/km. Way less than us. The problem is with how we manage construction projects in the UK.
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Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by tonyedgecombe on Friday August 23, 2019 @06:15AM (#20776019)
It's hard to compare, the UK is more densely populated, twice as high as France. My guess is a lot went into buying off property owners.
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Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by isostatic on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:13AM (#20778459)
They budgeted £1.1b, but have already spent £2b
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Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by handelaar on Friday August 23, 2019 @10:26AM (#20777962)
You'd be amazed just how poorly dynamite works for making miles of tunnel, in between up to 12 layers of pre-existing tunnels, through wet central London clay.
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