From: Keith Massey, Bishopthorpe, York.
What an appalling situation to be in for the country over this bright white elephant that is making us an international laughing stock. We need to cut our losses and terminate the whole thing started by Gordon Brown and Lord AdonisDid you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
Why have the costs gone completely through the roof? It must be incompetence on a record scale by those in charge. Who is responsible for the decision making so far and who are the companies given the contracts. It just seems that any major projects like this appear to be a licence to, literally, print our taxpayers money.
It’s not as though we have to go through the mountains of Switzerland: the land is all fairly flat for the whole line so I am astounded to hear that there is a nine mile tunnel. A nine mile tunnel for heaven’s sake - why? I do not feel inclined to risk going through a tunnel at 200mph under any circumstances.
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