John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲

@HS2theTruth

Exposing the lies & bullshit dispensed by HS2 & its deluded fan club. Retired Chartered Civil Engineer. Transport Planner. #BlockedbyAdonis. Likes rail

East Midlands UK, not a NIMBY Beigetreten Temmuz 2017

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·5 Kas

The HS2 trolls come out to claim HS2 is Green. Not one of them has ever come up with a justification for designing a railway for 250mph. It's the major factor why it is so expensive & so destructive. The carbon deficit of its construction & width needed is greater than a motorway

Jenny Jones@GreenJennyJones

Can #HS2 opponents please RT this and show it to anyone who still argues for it?

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Clive Lewis MP@labourlewis·15h

Wow. On Tuesday 107 MPs met frontline sewage campaigners, including those featured in Channel 4’s 'Dirty Business', to hear directly about their experience and what needs to change. Campaigners, including prominent figures like @Feargal_Sharkey, had one clear message: it’s time for public ownership.

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Nicholas Boys Smith@boys_nicholas·9h

Why do you think most consultants and lawyers defend the current system? It’s so mysterious.

Looking for Growth@lfg_uk

After £179,000,000 was spent on the Stonehenge Tunnel Plan, it has been scrapped. £179 million Spent on nothing. Is this acceptable?

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·6m

@MATatBucks I can't believe you could have come close to the true cost or could imagine the whole mess HS2 has turned into. There were many obvious problems but it has far exceeded my expectations.

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Martin Anthony Tett@MATatBucks·1d

I forecast the true cost of this project back in 2012. The Sec of State for Transport denied it and I received a lecture on cost and cost control. That SoS is long, long gone. I rest my case.#hs2

Ben Graham@BenGrahamUK

HS2 has burned through £40 billion of taxpayer money. The northern legs scrapped. Costs still rising. Completion nowhere in sight. This isn’t infrastructure. It’s a case study in how Britain wastes money at scale.

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WhatNow@SonnerSounds·1d

@MATatBucks ...and we still don't have a new budget or completion date.

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·14m

@alasdairskeil @BenGrahamUK The best railway is definitely not the fastest one. Adonis was only part of the problem. Others are just as culpable.

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Alasdair Skeil@alasdairskeil·11h

@BenGrahamUK It was Adonis who decided we needed the best railway in the world, rather than the most optimum

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Ben Graham@BenGrahamUK·1d

HS2 has already cost £40 billion, and it’s still unfinished. It was originally priced at £37 billion. Now projected to exceed £100bn. And then there’s this: A one kilometre “bat tunnel” costing up to £216 million to protect a few hundred bats. At one point: • £100 million for the tunnel • £73 milliom for the railway beneath it Britain is now building one of the most expensive railways on earth costing £1 billion per mile on average with no clear final cost. This is not a mega project, it's a mega waste of tax payer money.

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·17m

@Si66T @BenGrahamUK HS2 is heading to cost well over £100bn for the 110 miles between OOC & Curzon Street. Certainly world beating.

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Simon Thomas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@Si66T·23h

@BenGrahamUK For context

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·22m

@MrCairos_friend @BenGrahamUK No. It was £12.3bn.

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Bear & Ragged Staff 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇱🇺🇦@MrCairos_friend·18h

@BenGrahamUK I thought the original estimate was £32bn?

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·24m

@RichardEus97812 @BenGrahamUK We didn't need anything like HS2. WCML & Chiltern are just badly used & could provide all the capacity needed & far better connectivity.

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Richard Eustace@RichardEus97812·21h

@BenGrahamUK Sorry but HS2 is NEEDED.... 🤷🙄 WEVE NEEDED A HIGH SPEED LINE ( EXTRA CAPACITY) BETWEEN BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON FOR YEARS........ 🖕

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·28m

@GarethCole321 @BenGrahamUK Quite. At least the M6 Toll Road has some intermediate access points unlike HS2 and vehicles can use the entire road network. It is certainly going to cost a lot to run & maintain.

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Gareth Cole@GarethCole321·6h

@BenGrahamUK HS2 made no sense even when it actually went somewhere. Now all it does is run alongside existing tracks from Birmingham to London. It’s the train equivalent of the M6 Toll Road. It’ll probably price itself out of the market in the same way too.

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·32m

@thealiengunner @BenGrahamUK Because the train ride is not the journey & not many people want to do it. What we have gained is a money pit that will continue to stop us doing far more essential things for decades.

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aliengunner@thealiengunner·2h

@BenGrahamUK How can you say that connecting the biggest city and the 3rd biggest city with a 50minute train ride is bad I get that it’s overpriced. But it’s necessary to grow as a country

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·37m

@Oberon48 @BenGrahamUK The 1980s M40 to Oxford was the last motorway of any significance. HS2 was designed for a pointless speed & is the most expensive way by far of reducing journey times & increasing capacity. It will stand as a folly to a deluded engineer & politicians taken in by lobbyists.

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Chris Phillips@Oberon48·1d

@BenGrahamUK Would you have us build no modern infrastructure? If this was a new motorway I doubt if you would utter a word

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·46m

@BenGrahamUK The bat tunnel was unnecessary. The existing line that was there did not need one & faster trains could have used it. HS2 decided to build another one next to it & fell a load of trees in the process.

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·23h

@NoNewRoads1 @FriendsMoss Exceptional? The lack of a national transport strategy is exceptional so there's nothing to show what roads are needed for other than helping to facilitate & increase congestion.

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No New Roads@NoNewRoads1·1d

🌞 Tremendous news 🌙 The Department for Transport (DfT) has revoked the #Stonehenge development consent order (DCO) for a tunnel, two junctions and a northern bypass, saying it was doing so under “exceptional circumstances”. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·23h

@TodaysRailways @SpeedySticks007 @ScotRail @EastMidRailway @LumoTravel The great shame is that Meridians are dreadful in many respects compared to a much older HST. A noisy engine under the floor can't be ignored.

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Today's Railways UK@TodaysRailways·1d

22 x 222s for @ScotRail. The @EastMidRailway Meridians not going to @LumoTravel have been snapped up by @ScotRail to replace its HST fleet during 2027-28. The units will be refurbished by Alstom and repainted. They will initially be leased for 10 years

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·23h

@pacer142 @Christiane @LevelBoarding @MassiveTom @Rob_McPhee_UK The Japanese could ignore the EU! It had narrow gauge network so it could do what it wanted.

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Neil Williams@pacer142·4d

@HS2theTruth @Christiane @LevelBoarding @MassiveTom @Rob_McPhee_UK It's nothing to do with an EU standard. It's actually Japan/China height!

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Christiane Link@Christiane·6d

I have some ideas how to do that: 1. Only buy level boarding trains. This will save millions. 2. Don’t send mobile roving teams to staffed stations. Every railway staff member must provide assistance. Period. 3. Stop window dressing projects. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Noel Dolphin@NoelDolphin

@ChimeWhistle A couple of friends have said DfT has asked TOCs to make £800m in savings collectively. They dont have many ways to save costs beyond staff.

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·23h

@Rob_McPhee_UK @pacer142 @Christiane @LevelBoarding @MassiveTom The dream was for a high speed railway network which did not use existing stations or tracks. An utterly bonkers concept for Britain which has 10,000 miles of track & 2500+ stations. It's going to take 25 years to get 120 miles of track.

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Rob McPhee@Rob_McPhee_UK·4d

@pacer142 @HS2theTruth @Christiane @LevelBoarding @MassiveTom That's bonkers! Surely we should get trains made to fit our railways stations not others in different countries.

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·1d

@pacer142 @Christiane @LevelBoarding @MassiveTom @Rob_McPhee_UK The original HS2 train spec was to EU standards. DfT said it had to be but it could have sought a derogation. Trains travelling at very high speeds need high floors for large wheels & brakes. The solution is obvious - don't go for pointless & very expensive speeds.

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·1d

@RegenerationEX @Farnsworth100 @NEF @HereforHereford @stillawake @argokimetes @garyeconomiceso @c22cuk @CityVoicEd @innes_abby @NewCor18146 @EdwardHarkins @premnsikka @RichardJMurphy We now have the value of goods imported being £250bn a year more that exports. Was £113bn in 2015. That's one aspect of the 'economy'. Can we make it worse?

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Steven Boxall@RegenerationEX·2d

@Farnsworth100 @NEF @HereforHereford @stillawake @argokimetes @garyeconomiceso @c22cuk @CityVoicEd @innes_abby @NewCor18146 @EdwardHarkins @premnsikka @RichardJMurphy @HS2theTruth Essentially, yes, it is. The 'economy' is made up by lobbyists, and those have the most funding and shout loudest get the economy that they and their clients want. The 99% of us barely enter into the government's consideration.

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David Farnsworth@Farnsworth100·2d

So, "the economy" that we are so often told has to be obeyed or else, is made up the night before. @NEF @HereforHereford @stillawake @argokimetes @garyeconomiceso @RegenerationEX @c22cuk @CityVoicEd @innes_abby @NewCor18146 @EdwardHarkins @premnsikka @RichardJMurphy @HS2theTruth

NEF@NEF

"We have to be careful not to use words like scientific when describing the OBR because it's always inevitably going to contain value judgements." Our head economist Dr. Lydia Prieg speaking to the Treasury Select Committee this morning about about the OBR

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·1d

@Farnsworth100 @NewCor18146 @markrwilliamson @peteraf1 @SmartGrowthUK @RosieP4 @RegenerationEX @theTCPA @AlexaCulver @DavidBreezeUK @HS2DeadDuck @ClareFKing £800m would go nowhere relative to the full cost of providing the necessary infrastructure & facilities for such stupid greenfield development.

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David Farnsworth@Farnsworth100·2d

@NewCor18146 @markrwilliamson If the Gov invests £800m of public money, partly in land purchase, has a return to Gov from the added value from development been agreed with developers? @peteraf1 @SmartGrowthUK @RosieP4 @RegenerationEX @theTCPA @AlexaCulver @DavidBreezeUK @HS2DeadDuck @ClareFKing @HS2theTruth

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Mark Williamson@markrwilliamson·2d

‘People living and working in Ox-Cam Growth Corridor to benefit from additional investment’ - Gov. So what’s the £800m for? ‘Buying new land and building infrastructure to kickstart development backing new homes, labs and workspaces to supercharge future growth’ 1

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John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲@HS2theTruth·1d

@NewCor18146 @Farnsworth100 @markrwilliamson @peteraf1 @SmartGrowthUK @RosieP4 @RegenerationEX @theTCPA @AlexaCulver @DavidBreezeUK @HS2DeadDuck @ClareFKing A return for who?

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Housing- economy-environment Cornwall@NewCor18146·2d

@Farnsworth100 @markrwilliamson @peteraf1 @SmartGrowthUK @RosieP4 @RegenerationEX @theTCPA @AlexaCulver @DavidBreezeUK @HS2DeadDuck @ClareFKing @HS2theTruth But a return depends for housing on charging people the full rate !

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