We're doing this out of interest; because some local residents are enjoying seeing the progress, while others are annoyed and frustrated at the devastation caused by the enormity of the project.
As the project costs rocket from the initial £30bn expected, to what some are predicting to be £150bn at completion (bearing in mind, the Northern section has been abandoned so this figure doesn't include the full infrastructure), people are quite rightly annoyed and frustrated.
Our interest in this project is the huge engineering feat being undertaken. To see how the infrastructure is built, the machinery being brought in, how it's used to crush and move millions of tons of earth and how they overcome some of the most difficult and technically challenging geological and structural problems we've seen since the industrial revolution.
That said, there is no getting away from the huge, eye watering cost of this project. This video from TIB (The Impossible Build) explains the absolute mess HS2 is in to date, and this essentially boils down to poor management, bent politicians and bad decisions by all.
