$8.2 Billion from the President’s Investing in America Agenda to Deliver Transformative Passenger Rail in America President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda – a key pillar of Bidenomics – is delivering world class-infrastructure across the country, expanding access to economic opportunity, and creating good-paying jobs. By delivering $66 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law –…
140 miles is just what is remaining that hasn’t been cancelled. The cost you quote is from before the latest batch of cancellations at least. The latest estimate for the Birmingham to London section that I can find is £68 billion. This is the most expensive section of the original design of HS2. Hopefully the USians can learn a bit from the mistakes made here, such as boring tunnels just to avoid upsetting some rich people, and allowing a private company to make design changes to one of the termini stations at will.
Also AFAIK this bill doesn’t aim to fully fund any of the projects, for these types of projects in the US funding generally comes from a number of sources and this is just the federal government providing some.
HS2, the latest UK high speed rail project is 140 miles and the budget currently stands at about 100bn GBP (…130bn $…?)
10bn gon get you nowhere, sorry
/edit. More rail good, but realistic budgets needed
140 miles is just what is remaining that hasn’t been cancelled. The cost you quote is from before the latest batch of cancellations at least. The latest estimate for the Birmingham to London section that I can find is £68 billion. This is the most expensive section of the original design of HS2. Hopefully the USians can learn a bit from the mistakes made here, such as boring tunnels just to avoid upsetting some rich people, and allowing a private company to make design changes to one of the termini stations at will.
Also AFAIK this bill doesn’t aim to fully fund any of the projects, for these types of projects in the US funding generally comes from a number of sources and this is just the federal government providing some.
You’re absolutely right! We need 10x and more, and this is a start!