Name: なぜHS2にはそれほどのコストがかかるのでしょうか？ (Why is HS2 likely to cost so much - and will it be scrapped?)
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the 2 55 from Manchester Journey time to London two hours and eight minutes.

But fast forward, 20 years when HS two will in theory be a reality building to freeze, and we'll have faster journeys, increased capacity and more trains.

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But will some of the planned route only get some of the plan at a time when the North's being promised investment infrastructure?

And as the prime minister says, things being leveled up, it seems a chest to north of Birmingham might be paused to allow some rethinking, prompting a furious response from those insisting it can't be axed halfway.

It's the same old story, isn't it that we have a gold plated railway between London and Birmingham, But when it gets to further north or what, we can't have high speed.

That's why we got the chaos that we've got today, that the North has never had the investment that it needs, and now it looks as though that could be about to be repeated.

Is there no on argument, though, for saying okay, fine HS two long wind dates costing more money than we ever anticipated.

Let's actually get on with the work that needs doing in the North.

Now there is an argument for that, and I would certainly support that on.

I'm not against actually some of the costs of HS to being brought down.

But make those savings all the way down the line south of Birmingham into London in the Southeast as well.

Why have this different approach for the investment north of Birmingham again?

It's like will get a second class service back at the beginning, 34 billion was the price tag for a chest to buy last year, With work underway, it had more than doubled.

Today, it seems perhaps £106 billion that figure, apparently from the official review of a chest, too.

It's not yet been published, but parts of it have been wisely leaked.

And as the prices kept going up, so is the level of skepticism from some about its value, whether it always could actually benefit people traveling where they need to be.

My main concern is it's gonna drag a ll the prosperity and jobs and economy back into London.

Nothing's gonna make any difference to anybody, really, If they were, if they were creating a high speed rail that also tackled cost situation.

Then I think that would get people out of their cars, and it would encourage people to use public transport more ridiculous numbers.

We don't really don't need it way Don't whoever signs off needs needs ostracized in and, you know way can't have it.

What, we really better activity Better Local bus service is better train service.

Better cross pen line service is That's what we need to kick start the economy on what we need right now in that cup of years.

Noah Project, 20 years to build the Department for Transport says it's had a draft of the Oak Avi report since just before Christmas on a final decision will be made shortly.

What's for sure is that HS two is divisive.

Whatever is decided won't be what some want.

I'm joined now via the Internet by Andrew Sentance, a member of the Okay Vee Paddle, which completed its review of the HSE to project late last year under sentence.

What What is the true status of this report?

You you lot worked so hard on Well, my understanding is that it was submitted to the government um, in late October, Early November, the final sort of say so off.

No, you're very good to have done a report.

He he was the final author of the report, but in the final drafts I saw, um My understanding was it was submitted to the government later.

Why do you What's your sense of what's going on?

Do you think you said something the government didn't like or they liked it so much?

Well, you have to ask the government about that.

There's a bit of a bug going round in this part of the world.

Um, I think it's a very put it political, politically controversial project and various people in government is spending it in different ways.

And I think That's what we're seeing portrayed into the press.

I think the best outcome would be that the report is probably published, which is my understanding.

That would happen by the end of last year.

You know, we're now into January, and there's no much indication that the report will be published quite seen.

Thank you very much, because I think you're gonna sense what the situation is.

Hand Thanks for braving it through the through the ether.

Well, we're joined now from Westminster by the Labour Peer in one of the architects of the HS two project Lord a donor's.

Do you feel this is slipping away now you think the government's laying the groundwork for killing it off?

Well, that's clearly a massive argument going on inside the Conservative Party.

That's what's basically happening at the moment on.

But that was a licensed by Boris Johnson because what he did by appointing this review before the general election was to give both sides of the impression that he might come down on their side.

It's who is his infrastructure advisor as mayor of London on who I'm confident because he's very sensible.

Infrastructure sees and knows what the requirements are that he will be recommending strongly in favor of HS to continuing.

But he also put known opponents of HS two on the same review group who, as you say, have Bean briefing strongly against HS two.

Now you can't continually say that you back both the opponents on the proponents of a Chester.

What concerns me is that this is cast in terms off whether or not a Chester is going to be allowed to go ahead, but in fact it it is going ahead.

At the moment, £9 billion has been spent on HS.

2 2000 people are working on the project, but it is a company that made that clear.

The whole point about is they haven't made sufficiently clear, and it's very important that people understand that we're not talking about not proceeding with just two we'd be talking about midway through the construction of the biggest infrastructure project in Europe, we'd be talking about pulling the plug on dhe to cancel £9 billion worth of investment.

Throw thousands of people into unemployment on dhe to leave no infrastructure plan at all.

For linking the major conurbation of this country would be, I mean, one of the most extraordinary things that be possible to imagine a new government doing, which is particularly one that's trying to give a new economic plan to the Midlands on the North.

This is political at the end of the day, isn't it?

And if the government feels that it would be better off spending billions of pounds on specific roads in specific areas, you know that may or may not help it desire to spend money on places that have recently voted conservative.

Well, of course, the government connected a zit sees fit if it could get parliament's consent that I should note that parliament has twice over the last 10 years considered legislation for ages to when it's gone.

Through all the arguments, we have a full parliamentary process, including analysis of the economic and the transport infrastructure case for ages two, and on both occasions, the House of Commons voted by majorities of 10 to 1 in favor of HS two.

So any objective analysis of the case would I'm absolutely confident lead to it continuing.

But on your point about whether the money could be diverted, you had won a Tory MP on your earlier report saying it be great if we could have a quick action on roads and railways.

The idea You could cancel h us, too, and then suddenly pulled down off the shelf.

15 Other schemes, none of which have prepared, none of which have got planning consent, none of which have got business cases attached is totally for the birds.

If hs to his cancer, what would actually happen is an infrastructure drought.

Let me bring in the mid lands in the north, and that would be a terrible thing.

I do conservative MP who I think wants to do pretty much that.

A chest tube which goes through his constituency.