Kate Lamble
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first heard Jan 2021
last heard 27 May
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And if we take the government's top estimate of just over 100 billion pounds, you can kind of figure out how many billion per mile you're getting at that rate.
Making international comparisons, though, is a very, very difficult thing to do.
Part of this is just to do with the way that Britain is.
If you think about it, Britain is this really small, highly populated island.
Right.
As compared to France, which is huge and has much more open space.
There's also a question of just how difficult it was to thread a high speed line across Britain in order for trains to run really, really fast.
The track has to be as straight as possible.
And what the original engineers did was they basically traced all the possible ways they could get a straight line across Britain.
It looks like a piece of knitting, that original diagram.
And it's really difficult because if you follow initial motorways, the track would be too curvy.
If you follow existing railway lines, you would have to flatten commuter towns.
So they've had to trace it in this really, really difficult way.
And it meant going through the Chilterns, this area of outstanding natural beauty.
And it's actually really hard to draw a line across Britain without hitting something important, right?
If you just take a ruler and put it across a map, you normally hit something.
And on top of just the fact that you're going to hit something, it's going to cost you money to get that thing out of the way, we're also a property-owning island.
We're a democratic island.
We give homeowners and people who have an investment in this country a lot of say within what's happened, and we pay them compensation.
Now, that you consider to be perfectly appropriate, but it does cost money.
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