Kate Lamble
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first heard Jan 2021
last heard 27 May
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It cost more than 40 million pounds.
So there's a lot of this initial escalation is basically figuring out, oh, God, we actually
need a lot more than we think we do.
So what we then go into is a period of what I'd probably call costly compromise.
So essentially, they decide to do this process to get HS2 approved, called a hybrid bill.
It's not done very often at all.
And in some ways, it's like a normal government bill.
Politicians vote on it.
But in between those votes, anyone affected by the scheme can go to Parliament and basically campaign for how they're being affected and for changes to be made to the scheme.
And thousands of assurances were added to the bill.
£10,000 to renovate a drinking fountain, a quarter of a million pounds to insulate a church, half a million pounds for a new park in Aylesbury, tens of millions for a community fund that funded irrigation for bowling greens, solar panels for village... So basically, all these side deals that aren't necessarily, well, they're not anything to do with the railway.
essentially and most expensive of all there's the tunnels so currently there are so many tunnels cuttings and noise barriers that on a 49 minute journey from London to Birmingham passengers are only going to be able to see the countryside outside the window for nine minutes.
They're still paying for extra planning officers to support councils to carry out this work.
And there's still opposition and delays, which is also causing increased costs up to tens of millions of pounds.
They keep increasing the estimate.
And by 2019, they think it's going to take almost £74 billion to do the full leg, which is the equivalent of about £95 billion in today's money.
And then something else hits them, which is the contracts.
And I know what you're saying.
Tell me more about contracts, Kate.
They're fascinating.
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