英國HS2.第二高速鐵路可能斷炊停止興建? UK HS2 HSR project may be stop construction it. - Red Square 123的部落格

HS2’s budget is spread over 30 years and is less than current annual road and rail budgets. Well create more habitat, help decarbonise transport, better connect the Midlands and North and support 500,000 jobs.

Here are the economic, transportation and environment facts to help avoid misinformation.

HS2 will be a key part of the economic recovery. Construction will create tens of thousands of jobs. Regional plans estimate 500,000 jobs supported once complete. HS2’s long terms benefits mean that for every pound spent on it, more will be returned to invest in public services and levelling up the playing field.

HS2 will serve 25 stations in places such as Birmingham, Leeds, Crewe, Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Preston and Wigan, Newcastle and Carlisle. By taking fast trains off existing tracks, it frees up space at more than 100 other stations. Its the first major railway in the North for 100 years too. It means more rail freight and more people out of cars and off domestic flights, helping fight climate change.

We’re creating and enhancing 33 square kilometres of new and existing habitat. An increase of about 30% compared to what’s there now. 300,000 trees will be planted this winter, bringing the total to over 730,000, Our target is 7 million.

In summary, HS2 means more capacity, better connectivity and fighting climate change. HS2 is central to recovery and our long term economic health creating thousands of jobs and levelling up the playing field. An aerial architects drawing of the large and long high speed station at Birminghams Curzon Street Station

An aerial architects drawing of the large and long high speed station at Birminghams Curzon Street Station

英國興建中HS2.高速鐵路車站及鐵路工程.傳聞中國將不再投資,協助英國興建21世紀最大的鐵路工程項目,將導致於該工程被迫中斷或是中止興建工程?

HS2.若是全線動工興建將可以創造出5萬餘名的工作就業機會,對於英國經濟及社會均有所助益,已有15000名的工作者投入該工程項目,如今卻傳出中國不再願意給予英國,高達256億英鎊融資的消息,令人驚訝為什麼?.

Ecosystems permanently damaged. Irreplaceable habitats destroyed. Taxpayers money spent on restoration wasted. Wildlife extinctions at a local level. This could be nature’s fate if the current plans for HS2 continue.

In the most comprehensive environmental assessment to date we can reveal the sheer scale of potential damage from HS2. Our report, Whats the damage shows that the deep cut HS2 will make across the landscape could stop nature’s recovery in its tracks.

PAC questioning case for HS2 (again)

The Public Accounts Committee have once again questioned the case for HS2 in a letter sent to the Department for Transport this week.

Programme uncertainties within HS2
We welcome the HS2 Minster’s first update to Parliament and hope that it will be the start of a more open and transparent relationship with Parliament and the public regarding this programme. We also particularly look forward to the Minister’s review of the land and property programme. However, it is frustrating that there are still signs that HS2 Ltd and the Department are not taking our concerns over transparency seriously. We spoke about the FOI log and Board Minutes being out of date and the surprisingly high number of non-disclosure agreements in use in the programme. You agreed to investigate the issues with the FOI log immediately.

We remain concerned that there continues to be a large amount of uncertainty within the Programme, such as the outcome of Phase 2b and the implications for rail connections in the north, as well as decisions on Euston station. There will also be uncertainty over the environmental impacts of the programme. You explained that an environmental sustainability committee has been set up to consider these impacts. However, this seems late in the day considering construction work has already begun in many places.

Given that the aviation sector is seriously grappling with the potential for structural changes, including online meetings reducing the demand for short stay international business trips, we are concerned that your approach and sensitivity analysis may already be out of date and therefore an incomplete basis for investment appraisal. We note that the April 2020 business case provided some sensitivity testing on reduced passenger demand but was prepared prior to the full impact of COVID. We also welcome your ongoing work to review how best to undertake investment appraisal during these uncertain times, but this does not address the urgency of the need for up to date analysis informing decision-making on this £98 billion project.

Recommendation:
• We strongly recommend that you perform an up to date assessment of the different scenarios that could affect the long-term business case of HS2 as a result of the pandemic, particularly passenger travel patterns, in order to help you to establish what action you need to take to ensure value for money for taxpayers;
• Please write to us within six months with details of your scenario analysis and the impact on forecast benefits. With the nature and extent of the Department’s commitment to high speed rail in the East Midlands and Yorkshire remaining unclear we ask that this analysis includes a consideration of trade-offs on benefits and costs which are informing the government’s choice between different investment decisions on the future of Phase 2b’s eastern portion and its relationship with other rail connections in the north

Government not involved in China-HS2 talks.

Chinas state railway company told HS2 Ltd it could build it in just five years and for less money, according to a letter seen by Building magazine.

But Mr Shapps told the BBC: "This has not been a discussion with the Department [for Transport]."

It comes after Boris Johnson this week approved the controversial HS2 scheme.

This was despite an official review warning costs could reach over £100bn, against a budget of £62bn.

2020年初宣佈的計劃，HS2工程將即刻啟動，首期工程於202004正式動工，主要開建倫敦至伯明翰（直線距離約200公里）的第一階段，並爭取將其在2028至2031年之間建成。第二階段伯明翰分別與曼徹斯特和利茲連接的高鐵將於2035年到2040年之間建成。也就是說第一階段需要8至11年，第二階段（從現在開始算）需要15至20年完成。HS2高鐵總長大約531公里，目前政府預算僅有不到560億英鎊。但政府目前估計總投資預算可能大約高達1060億英鎊。

龐大的工程預算經費需要英國納稅人承擔,不夠的資金僅有中國願意提供融資貸款,但是必須同意中國承包商承建部份鐵路工程及車站,縮短施工期限.

HS2: Could the pandemic kill off the rail project?

The high-speed rail line was planned to accommodate increased passenger numbers over the coming decades, but experts forecast that the home-working revolution may permanently reduce UK travel demand.

Now, the government says the main justification is that HS2 is part of a long-term infrastructure plan serving future needs.

But the head of the Department for Transport has admitted it has no idea of future travel patterns nor passenger numbers.

Objectors to the project - a high-speed rail link between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds - fear that emissions from construction work will outweigh any carbon savings for decades.

They are also angry about the damage to wildlife sites and ancient woodlands. One of the founders of the UK green movement, Tom Burke, has described the railway as a “20th Century project for the 21st Century”.

Parliament initially approved HS2 in 2016 but political opposition has not gone away and the environmental case for the railway is coming under greater scrutiny in Westminster.

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas says HS2 does not represent an investment in a greener future but is "a destructive vanity project and needs to be stopped before it does any more damage".

The Commons Public Accounts Committee recently pressed the top civil servant at the transport department, Bernadette Kelly, on passenger forecasts.

Chesham and Amersham MP Dame Cheryl Gillan, one of HS2s most vehement critics, questioned whether the cost could be justified when "you have not established that the future use of public transport will be at a level that will make this railway viable in any way, shape or form?”

傳聞很多阿貓,阿狗非專業人士,利用關係混入HS2.謀得工作職位,同時HS2.

授權獵人頭公司在海外大肆招募工程師騙取服務仲介費.

英國第二高速鐵路難道是因應covid-19.停工或是另有文章?

英國第二高速鐵路臨停工或中止興建的命運?傳聞中國,已經決議將不再融資英國,興建第二高速鐵路工程項目,這樣一來英國將損失高達256億英鎊的貸款以及無數的利益損失為什麼?

國際戰略專家學者綜合分析如下:

1:英國政黨惡鬥贊成與反對興建第二高速鐵路工程項目勢均力敵.

2:環境保護人士及農民,鐵路沿線當地居民,堅決反對興建第二高速鐵路工程項目,理由是破壞環境生態,造成新的污染及社會問題,使得全英國境內被該工程徹底挖掘一次,無法彌補大自然的損害.

3:贊成此鐵路工程項目的人士以工程界鄉及相關的承包商以及國際貿易公司,得到利益,當然HS2.及英國政府是最大的受益者.因此少數的投機者要犧牲掉多數英國人的利益自然引起重大的衝突其中最具利益關係就是土地投資開發商,大肆收購鐵路沿線的土地,準備炒地皮謀取暴利.

4:自從2020 COVID-19.疫病在英國傳播以來,嚴重的引影響到英國經濟發展,但是到2021年伊始病情惡化,轉型突變成為BRv.意思就是British Virus.英國病毒,即使施打疫苗也無效,導致於倫敦等大城市考慮封城管制搶救,截至筆者發稿為止,該封城案尚在議會爭論不休.

5:英國在2020 covid-19.高峰期間,率先向中國興師問罪,並且聯合美國,歐盟,印度,日本,澳洲等多數國家,向中國索求賠償,高達1000億英鎊之譜,所得款項由英國統籌再分配,充分顯示出英國狼子野心的帝國主義作風.

6:英國批評中國的香港,新疆,西藏的人權,甚至於聯合美國在2018年,支持香港人大舉行示威,遊行,抗議,陳情,甚至於縱火,暴動,破壞香港的公共設施,霸佔香港國際機場,不僅與執法人員,警察公開對抗,暴力相向,也波及無辜的外國人.

7:英國胡亂的阻止中國華為5G.電信工程在英國境內的設置與投標業務,卻變相無償使用中國華為5G.電信設備,用來做新聞傳播(BBC.的協力廠商).

8:英國HS2高速鐵路公司多次與中國協商會議,無理的要求將中國高速鐵路的核心技術(Core System TECH)無償轉移,此外更要求中國高速鐵路在英國設廠製造鐵路車廂及相關的鐵路設備.

9:根據情報顯示出英國HS2高速鐵路公司,向中國提出的建議報告書,不實充份的灌水造假,亦就是工程施工期長達10年之久,工程費高的離譜,無疑是全世界造價最昂貴的高速鐵路,每公里平均造價高達10億英鎊.

10:英國HS2高速鐵路公司招募員工,充次非專業工程人士,換句話說阿貓,阿狗,憑藉關係混入hs2,.得到工作賺取高額的薪資,此外亦傳聞HS2高速鐵路公司授權獵人頭公司HR/Firm.,在海外招聘工程師,卻要繳交3000英鎊的報名費用及服務費,導致於那些獵人頭公司大肆刊登不實的職缺廣告,招募海外人士騙取服務費用,卻沒有真實的職位,已經有多數的求職者上當受騙,也有人透過律師,控告英國HS2高速鐵路公司涉嫌詐欺,可是猶如石沈大海皆無下文,在專業人士的Linkedin 網站,有多起申訴的信件發表,敘述被HS2.及獵人頭公司的欺騙詐事件.