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Will HS2 Fail or Succeed?

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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  • not sure about Arthur C Clark, what we will get will be more like Colin Kapp I suspect.

    ( for those who are not sure)
    The Railways Up on Cannis is is a particularly apt episode, where the trains end up with rollers as there are too many existing but  incompatible track width standards that all have to be met.
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  • not sure about Arthur C Clark, what we will get will be more like Colin Kapp I suspect.

    ( for those who are not sure)
    The Railways Up on Cannis is is a particularly apt episode, where the trains end up with rollers as there are too many existing but  incompatible track width standards that all have to be met.
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