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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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    I cannot disagree with you Andy, it is the ecological connecting corridors that matter. I'm a member of the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and am torn as I am a believer in the need for HS2 to increase capacity and be the staring point for HS3 and more. I believe it will generate prosperity and without that the wild life trusts will fail anyway. The mitigation works promised by HS2 need some joined up thinking to ensure joined up mitigation and joined up habitats. Nature does have a way of always bouncing back, and will no doubt survive the human race, but now we're getting into philosophy!

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    I cannot disagree with you Andy, it is the ecological connecting corridors that matter. I'm a member of the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and am torn as I am a believer in the need for HS2 to increase capacity and be the staring point for HS3 and more. I believe it will generate prosperity and without that the wild life trusts will fail anyway. The mitigation works promised by HS2 need some joined up thinking to ensure joined up mitigation and joined up habitats. Nature does have a way of always bouncing back, and will no doubt survive the human race, but now we're getting into philosophy!

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