General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

It took 6 years to build the Channel Tunnel, 8 yrs from signing an agreement with the French to build it in 1986, it opened in 1994.

HS1 a 68 mile long route from the Channel Tunnel to London took 16 years to build, being given the go ahead in 1991 and opening in 2007.

HS2 was proposed as a serious project in 2009 and work started on HS2 in 2020.

They, that being both Labour and Conservative governments, just can't get it done, there being too many legal obstacles in the way, making progress on the project painfully slow and very expensive, to the point where it is not a viable project anymore, which is because of the time scale, because over some 40 years or so, technology has overtaken high speed travel, so what was science fiction in the 1980s is now science fact, in that people can interact with one another in a virtual environment, linked over thousands of miles, by 'high speed' internet, making physical travel unnecessary.