Yeah, so far. My back is getting better, and I went to see my mum because her house is going to be flattened for the HS2 railway link.
Seems she will get market valuse plus 10% for the house, and money to adapt another house to her decrepit needs. She is more worried about loss of habitat for the birds though.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:23, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

When is this happening?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:28, Reply)

Not for a couple of years, but they want people to get ready.
She's 87, and says she may not live that long. Her mother lived to be 96, so I told her to not be so daft.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:36, Reply)

How many houses are being knocked down for this?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:37, Reply)

It must be high hundreds, just between london and the M25.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:41, Reply)

Must be cheaper to upgrade existing lines.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:42, Reply)

It's already 4 lines, and goes through the centre of many towns.
The work would mean closing that route while the work went ahead. This way, they build the line while the existing one continues to work its bollocks off.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:45, Reply)

This is going to cost billions.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:46, Reply)

It is also a method of getting the economy going.
This is an important point.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:48, Reply)

How?

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:53, Reply)

They will put the econemy on one of the new super fast train.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:53, Reply)

And run it into the buffers.
G'night all.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:56, Reply)

Now that is sad, I bet it is a nice house too.
Its all being done for political gain- Cameron thinks it will make the midlands conurbation and the north like him more (it won't), Milliband just relishes annihilating southern rurality.
(PockGibberty Likes to satisfy his Quimlust!, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:36, Reply)

Well maybe.
The part of the line by my mum's is an existing but underused mainline that used to go to Birmingham. I see the having to move as an opportunity, to move to a bungalow or flat where she can be independant, but with a warden on call when she needs them. As for the railway lne, I think it is just going to end up as a normal medium speed line to take the pressure off the already up to capacity west coast mainline. It just needs a gimic to get the funding, so let's call it the high speed line.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:40, Reply)

And it'll all get scrapped in five years' time when they realise it's a vastly expensive project with no direct benefit to London or the south-east.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:42, Reply)

This is a possibility.
I feel they want to throw so much money at it now, it will be uneconomic to not continue with it.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 28 Jan 2012, 22:47, Reply)