Instead, we just see rewards for incompetence. One thing characterises all of the failings: the fact that nobody is ever held to account. This situation has developed over years, and now appears to be considered the norm in our public services. SIR – Every day I read reports of executive and administrative failure – on everything from the collapsing NHS to HS2. Lay conventional track and run existing trains. If it is considered too late to abandon the project, the sensible way to save money is to scrap the “high speed” aspect. Rather than saving 20 minutes on the journey from Birmingham to London, trains are running years behind schedule. SIR – HS2 has turned from comedy into tragedy, and ruined Britain’s reputation for engineering.
When is someone going to have the courage to stop pouring money into this bottomless pit? And now less is being built, over a longer period. Then it was £70 billion, then £100 billion. The money saved could then be spent on some real levelling-up: a high-speed rail link across the North from Hull to Liverpool, for instance. Death by a thousand cuts will just waste more billions on a project that was never anything more than a monument to politicians’ vanity. It needs to be put out of its misery at once. SIR – The Government should remember the first rule of economics: never throw good money after bad.ĭelaying HS2 ( report, March 10) is simply prolonging the agony.
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