🌳 Construction is only one threat to woodlands. Heatwaves & drought can stress and kill mature trees in ways we still don’t fully understand. We need to decarbonise industry, energy, transportation (yes that includes #HS2) ASAP or we’ll lose _everything_. https://science.thewire.in/environment/dead-trees-around-the-world-shock-scientists/

Little reminder about my two main accounts:

💚 This account @samsterby is for #politics including: #transport, #cycling, #activeTravel, #trains, #HS2, #ecosocialism, #GreenParty / #gpew, and that kind of thing.

👋 My other account @sam is for general life, #parenting, #music, #tech, #iosDev, #grumblingAboutWork, stuff.

Doesn’t always work out cleanly but that’s the general idea 👍

Larry Elliot comes out against #HS2.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/10/hs2-scrap-tories-labour-budget-public-finances

More of the UK's tax payer's money spaffed up a wall!

HS2 is officially ‘unachievable’ after being given red rating https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/30/hs2-officially-unachievable-red-rating-problems-london-birmingham 🚆 #HS2 #ToryCorruption

major #transport project in the #UK will save 4.8 seconds on journeys (I don't understand why so many people carrier drivers object to #HS2)

https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023/07/stonehenge-tunnel-scheme-madness

'Highways England reckons that the average time-saving on a 100-mile journey would be just 4.8 seconds. The historian Tom Holland, [also] president of the Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site campaign, has described the project as “the gravest act of desecration perpetrated by any recent British government”.'
#motorists #Stonehenge

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-public-sector-pay-rises-education-nhs
The Tories have always valued property over people, and even in the face of abject failure, this vanity project continues, despite its many failings and humongous costs.
Prioritising where the money goes - well as long as it's not the public sector...
#HS2 #GTTO #Railways #Infrastructure #PublicSector

"Please, tell me, priest – I've lost a parent , I must know! Were the first large inhabitants of #Euston the feared flesh-eating wild #aurochs? Do their still-solid #ghosts still plauge track maintenance and #HS2 workers to this day?"

HTs #WeirdLondon #TellingStories #hookland #Camden #LostThings #horn #London #photography

New #vlog day 🥳
Our #cruise along the #SouthOxfordCanal continues through the #HS2 construction site, past the point where the railway will cross the canal and on to the abandoned medieval village of #Wormleighton. Join us...

https://youtu.be/yfxGr-7MXPY

#youtubevlog #boat #oxfordcanal #stoneton #hs2 #Wormleighton #FirstRuleoftheCanal

What to do when HS2 threatens your village? Write a play full of gay sex, trans sex, disabled sex and characters 'wanking off to Countryfile'; Village Idiot at Stratford East is a sort of anarchistic anti-Archers. My review in @PlaysToSee https://playstosee.com/village-idiot/ #theatre #HS2

New vlog day 🥳
Our journey along the southern section of the #oxfordcanal continues from #priorshardwick and we #cruise past the #hs2 construction site and see where it will cross the #canal

https://youtu.be/QLiuPe3DnEM

#youtubevlog #cruise #windyday
#boatsthatmastodon #lifeisbetterbywater

Ley de Betteridge: pero en este caso, la respuesta es sí

#HS2
https://www.ft.com/content/1fbe8818-5fb2-426d-89d8-3fc4b0ea55fe

RT @LCMuir: Really starting to hit home now. #HS2 currently ripping hedges out that Dad planted on the farm. What stings even more is they haven't paid for the land they have taken & we don't know when we will get paid. Just imagine if someone took the roof over your head without paying...

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/jaglancy/status/1638611085296295937

The clearance of the burial site for Euston’s new HS2 railway station is the topic of a new FREE exhibition that’s opened at St James's Church, Piccadilly.
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hs2-archaeology-exhibition-in-central-london-61368/ #HS2 #archaeology

#HS2 Protest has complicated outcomes https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/hs2-protesters-face-retrial-for-occupying-self-made-tunnels-at-euston-20-12-2022/

@RailFocus And because of the temporary lighting and signposting, it's a bloody nightmare to drive through at night. I notice that you didn't show what they'd done to the once circular roundabout to the north. (-:

#HS2 #Solihull

That there Channel Tunnel was way over budget. Perhaps we should have stopped half way #HS2

"The world’s finest contractors will have taken a quarter century to build a project that Robert Stephenson finished in five years with picks and shovels. This is inexcusable".

Inexcusable also, is the wildlife, ancient woodlands and people's homes that have been decimated en route.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/14/hs2-ministers-delays-railway-money
#Nature #VanityProject #Wildlife #Woodland #Home #Railways #HS2

In today's video I'll provide some information about Interchange, the new #HS2 station being constructed to the east of #Birmingham, and take a look at some of the new road infrastructure that has already been constructed. #WestMidlands #Solihull https://youtu.be/JvbxbzaZkmE

Operation 'Blame it on the next Labour government' is underway...
HS2 line between Birmingham and Crewe delayed by two years - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64901985
#HS2 #Railways #transport

Truly ridiculous.
Rail *makes* money through fares.
Roads don't.
And "prioritising... Old Oak Common in London and Birmingham Curzon Street" is stupid because that's not the journey people want to make!
#BuildRailNotRoads #BuildEuston #HS2
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/09/parts-hs2-delayed-two-years-cut-soaring-costs-rail-project?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other