AlanHo
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Posts : 8798
Join date : 2016-10-16
Age : 87
Location : Marston Green, Solihull
 | | Subject: HS2 Railway Wed Jul 14, 2021 12:57 pm | |
| I had to clean the car for the second time in a week yesterday. The car was brown but was supposed to be white.
It is the result of living in an area beset by work on HS2 requiring significant re-routing of numerous side roads and some of the main roads. Bridges are being build over the M42 and the adjacent main roads. Traffic gridlock is a daily hazard. An automated overhead people mover is being built connecting the new station to the airport and National Exhibition Centre which goes over a number of local roads.
Birmingham airport is just 1.5 miles away from our home and the huge new HS2 Birmingham railway station is being built 2 miles away. Road diversions, re-routing and closures are rife and the heavy construction traffic is dragging a sea of mud onto the roads. There is an army of road cleaning machines doing battle with the mud problem - but it is a mixed blessing - by being slow moving and making traffic flow worse.
According to the artists conception pictures It is all going to be mighty impressive when completed - but the work involved is unavoidably seriously inconveniencing local residents. We have about 4 to 5 years of it.
They should have given the contract to the Chinese - they would have built the whole railway in a couple of years max. ----------------------------------------- This post may contain controversial personal opinion, humour, ironic comment or sarcasm. If I have accidentally offended you - please contact me and I will unreservedly apologise. If however it was intentional - it will add to my pleasure.  |
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Purwell
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Join date : 2017-03-19
Age : 76
Location : Hertfordshire UK
| | Subject: Re: HS2 Railway Wed Jul 14, 2021 2:41 pm | |
| Do you actually know who the main contractor is?
Might get a surprise! |
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AlanHo
V.I.P Member
Posts : 8798
Join date : 2016-10-16
Age : 87
Location : Marston Green, Solihull
| | Subject: Re: HS2 Railway Wed Jul 14, 2021 2:56 pm | |
| In our area, it is Balfour Beatty Vinci.
They will be employing 7,000 people on the Midlands section.
They have been attracting local tradesmen who see it as a short term regular well paid job - so much so that getting building work done in our area is very difficult and expensive
I am registered with HS2 to be invited on local information webinars and receive daily Email updates on significant activities and road closures ----------------------------------------- This post may contain controversial personal opinion, humour, ironic comment or sarcasm. If I have accidentally offended you - please contact me and I will unreservedly apologise. If however it was intentional - it will add to my pleasure. |
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