| ▲ | JohnCClarke 2 days ago |
| Be careful when getting irate about aledged "Health & Safety" or "Ecological" oe other money wasting. The facts are often different than they first appear: https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/01/31/no-the-hs2-bat-tunnel-... |
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| ▲ | calpaterson 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I read your link and it does not support your view that the facts are different than they appear. He calculates a bit differently (including not just currently living bats but those bats yet unborn) but still I feel the tunnel was not necessary |
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| ▲ | ta1243 2 days ago | parent [-] | | You're looking at someone saying "look at this tiny pothole and how awful it is on a road" when 50 yards further down there's a massive chasm. It's a distraction technique as old as the hills, and implies the blame for the missing 100b is because of bat boxes, while others run off with the remaining 99b. | | |
| ▲ | potato3732842 2 days ago | parent [-] | | No it's not. The bad boxes are both literal and metaphorical. There are many stupid straws on this stupid camel and every stupid straw is there because a stupid person said "but what about my bats, or whatever" without consideration and/or caring for the big picture. |
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| ▲ | crinkly 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| When this one comes up I always point out it would be better to not bother with HS2 and spend the money on making it easier for people not to have to travel around. |
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| ▲ | ben_w 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Great, but it's also a goods corridor; the only way around both of those at the same time (absent massive depopulation) is to move the people, would mean building loads more houses. | | |
| ▲ | crinkly 2 days ago | parent [-] | | The WCML is perfectly adequate for that. HS2 is a vanity project for business and general passenger travel, none of which is certain or impossible on the WCML already. | | |
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