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[–] sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@Noit Britain isn't able to do high-speed rail?

[–] Noit@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Britain struggles to achieve any project of scale. Just look at our lack of success in building nuclear power stations.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If you think that's bad, wait till you hear about the US... Only one small part that hits 150mph (240km/h) on a 50mi (80km) section. For a country that's got more land area that Europe....

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have one high speed rail link already, HS1. It goes from London to the channel tunnel.

This article is about HS2, that would go north.

[–] sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@vext01 Perhaps what I mean is that the British are *now* unable to build projects of scale

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe not with all the other stuff going on...