Britain’s HS1 rail connection finds ‘worthless for money’, report

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Sixteen years after Britain’s first high-speed railway service, the official impact on the economic impact of HS1 in the south-east of the southeast was “worthless for money” closed for £ 7.3 billion.

Report in two years by the ministers is a awkward time for the government, because from London’s larger HS2 scheme than Birmingham struggles to prevent delays in the HS2 scheme.

The London St. Pancras, which has a London Tunnel and Kent, in 2007 after Giving Progress, in 2007, increased and increased to the Southeast, after going in 2007 rails Capacity.

“The starting point for money evaluation gives you an worthless value for the HS1 money,” he said.

The steering wheel is a lawyer for high-speed rails that help start the current HS2 The railway project is more than ten years ago.

The study said that the use of the HS1 is lower than the forecast when the project is approved by the project and it was not possible to benefit the promised area.

Although the HS1 population has increased in Ashford and Canterbury, it said, “It is increasingly growing in London.” reportReleased by the government in June.

The result is not a significant increase in local economic indicators, such as GVA (added to the general value), as it has not benefited from the HS1, “he said,” he said, “

The government is fighting for the new HS2 railway designed to unite London with Europe and Scotland, but since today it was re-measured to escape between the capital and Birmingham.

The price rose to a minimum of £ 80 billion, despite the site, despite the demolition, how the trains in the Central London do not have any plan.

The Secretary of Transport Heidi Alexander, acknowledged that the project will be last month It was delayed for several years. The government revealed that HS2 has to run slowly than expected to prevent the delay in the opening of the HS2.

During the exchange of political conservative transport adviser and transport head Andrew Gilligan, “This research” expresses extreme claims about the economic benefits of the high-speed rule, based on the real world evidence. “

He added that the HS1 was still a better project than HS2, a better project than two thirds for a mile in a true sense. ”

According to official figures, in 2024, HS2 taxpayers were spent on £ 7.7 billion pounds, 57 percent, last year in local public transport. It is no longer expected to open until mid-2030s.

In November 2010, the British government for sale in a concession of a concession of special investors, which has been up to £ 2.1 billion for 30 years. It now belongs to investors, including HICL infrastructure and EQUITITITIX.

London St Pancras highspeed recently offered financial incentives to operators to manage services between London and Mainland Europe. Following his study, it aims to increase the demand that this could increase international passenger numbers to about 5,000 o’clock.

London St Pancras highspeed, “It declared an ambitious growth promotion scheme …… This said that the increase in passengers and new directions, more than the use of existing stations in the southeast.

The transport department has been successfully delivered for the sensitivity, increased sensitivity for the HS1, international rail services, he said.

He added that the report was in London or a wider, wider, more long-term economic effects, such as “methodical restrictions.”