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Will HS2 Fail or Succeed?

Dave Perton
I believe it will do both, it just depends on the measure you use. In an project there are three measures of success or failure, cost, time-scale and outcome and I believe it will fail on two but succeed on the most important and have set out my argument in a blog post here https://communities.theiet.org/groups/blogpost/view/27/231/6920


The project is so complex to think costs will not overrun or timing slip is to be naive, as it is impossible to predict them when the timescales are so long and the complexity so great, but the outcome will be a success
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    These kinds of projects are always sold to the government based on wildly optimistic costs and timescales, which will never be met.  If the people planning the project had submitted realistic figures, HS2 would never have started, and the people planning it would have been out of a job.


    While HS2 may be popular and successful once it's finished, we may never know the lost opportunity of what else could have been done with the money instead.
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    These kinds of projects are always sold to the government based on wildly optimistic costs and timescales, which will never be met.  If the people planning the project had submitted realistic figures, HS2 would never have started, and the people planning it would have been out of a job.


    While HS2 may be popular and successful once it's finished, we may never know the lost opportunity of what else could have been done with the money instead.
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