HS2 formation of physical structures The initial timeline of the project should have been completed till now “to a large extent” – but it is actually more than half, Project chief executive officer Has accepted.
HS2 Limited Chief Executive I mark wild The decision to start construction work before the final design or consent was convicted as a result of the major delay in the execution of the project on “disability of work”.
Giving evidence in front of the Commons Transport Select Committee, HS2 Limited Chief Executive Officer Mark Wild admitted: “The construction of civil engineering should have been completed to a large extent by now.
“The reality is that we are about 60 percent complete.”
When asked about the reasons for the delay, Mr. Wilde said: “This is a very, very important lesson – the projects should not be collected and if you have not got the design and consent, it should not be started, because the productivity of the teams, the hard working teams, if you are waiting for the design, is taken advantage of.”
He said that failure to complete designs before construction started was a major reason for the delay than the high speed target of the new railway line.
“This is probably more important at the effective speed”, the chief executive said. “I agree, speed, trains per hour, tons load, have had a huge impact on the imagination.
“I think when everyone said and did, the cost of cost, although most of the work has been in disability, because we have started very soon. I think it will appear as the most prominent impact.”
He also said that inflation had an impact due to Koronwirus epidemic and the invasion of Russia in Ukraine.
Stage 1 of HS2 between London and Birmingham was initially planned to open by the end of 2026.
It was later pushed back between 2029 and 2033, but Transport Secretary Heida Alexander said that last month there was no “route” to complete that time limit.
In 2013, HS2 was estimated to cost a cost of £ 37.5 billion-2009 prices for the planned networks, which include now-scraped extensions from Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds.
In June last year, HS2 Limited assessed the cost of the line between London and Birmingham, which would be up to £ 66 billion.
Earlier this year, MPs were warned by MPs on Public Accounts Committee (PAC) High-speed rail between London and Birmingham Government and can never be distributed HS2 Lack of “skill or ability” to complete the project.
The powerful committee of MPs said that the railway project should be studied as an example “How to run a major project“, Billions of pound taxpayer funds have already been ruined.
And, despite the northern leg of HS2, the ax has been killed to cut the cost, A trick was revealed by earlier IndependentThe PAC warned that it suspects the capacity of the government “even to give a curtain plan”.
In a harmful report, the committee said that even though the Slim Down HS2 project has been given, it will “bring a very bad price for money”. An example was the construction of a committee quoted in the waste connected to HS2 Bat protection tunnel in Buckinghamshire costs more than £ 100 meters,
Shortly after joining HS2 Limited as Chief Executive in early December 2024, Mr. Wilde stated that the project was “in a very serious position that requires a fundamental reset”.
In October 2023, the then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak canceled the plan to expand the HS2 between West Midlands and Manchester. Independent Increasing the anger between northern politicians and business heads, the PM’s plans were already revealed in weeks.
And the leg employed for Leeds was reviewed after a review in 2020 in November 2021 due to cost and delay.
