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Sunak’s HS2 mega-scheme debacle holds lessons for Ireland
The cost of the rail project has ballooned, forcing the British prime minister to abandon the northern leg
No piece of infrastructure is more ostentatiously modern in the 21st century than a high-speed train network.
A few thoroughly modern countries have one. France and Japan pioneered high-speed rail and have superb networks, as does Spain. China has a reported 40,000 kilometres of high-speed lines linking its largest cities.
The UK has been attempting to join that exclusive club for nearly two decades. High Speed 1 opened in 2007 to link London to the ...
