https://thechamberlainfiles.com/international-construction-firms-dominate-hs2-contracts-bidding-war/ Politics, LEPs and economic development in the West Midlands Mon, 27 Jul 2015 21:03:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://thechamberlainfiles.com/international-construction-firms-dominate-hs2-contracts-bidding-war/#comment-11685 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:15:45 +0000 https://thechamberlainfiles.com/?p=16702#comment-11685 The longer this story goes on the more I am convinced it is a folly. It is going to take longer to build than the Manchester Ship Canal. And by the time that was built it was more about inward investment than the trade which was its original rational. And within decades Manchester was a depressed area. But the discourse around the ship canal made more sense than that about HS2, whose cost-benefit calculations seemed to rest on some spurious calculation of the value of work on on lap-tops on the train.

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