Let’s talk money. The original budget was £32.7 billion. Now it’s £106 billion. That’s like ordering a coffee and then realizing you’ve bought the entire Costa chain. Each minute saved will cost roughly £3.2 billion. For that cash, you could buy a personal jetpack—or just hire a chauffeur to drive you while you nap. But hey, at least you’ll have bragging rights at dinner parties. “I saved 33 minutes, but only after paying for a £100 billion train.”
To put it in laughably absurd terms: HS2 will save you the time it takes to boil a perfect egg. But the egg? That egg costs more than a lifetime supply of chickens.
HS2 offered so much - Rail Engineer
