fishwomp
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I bet we see two options emerging for Marsden:
Option 1: [ £x billion - let's say £1bn]
- Marsden to Huddersfield: 4 tracked again.
- Reopen the old bores
- Reopen the old route (name forgotten) from the unused bores to just outside Stalybridge (currently mostly a foot/cyclepath, easily visible on google maps)
- From this point, straight line to Guide Bridge (there's a lot of commercials yards, a few buildings, and a local Stalybridge Conservative Club)
- 4 track Guide Bridge to Ashburys
Option 2: [£10x billion - let's say £10bn
- Dig tunnel from Ashburys to Diggle
- As above from Diggle to Huddersfield
At this point - bearing in mind this doesn't need to be decided until after the 2024 election, if not 2028.. - it'll probably take 3 years to come up with the two options above..
Government of the day (2024-2028) will say "we can save £9bn and deliver quicker, less disruptively, fewer people thrown out of their houses" etc.., so we end up with Option 1 as the only realistic outcome, but feel free to imagine a different outcome, I just think option 1 is most likely to pass a value for money test and it'd be good enough.
Isn't the IPR basically saying "this is the kind of connectivity we need, go and find how it could be done and what it costs" - much of the IPR isn't costed and designed to the extent that you could start safeguarding land yet..e[.]
I don't believe they have found a surface route all the way to Marsden.
I bet we see two options emerging for Marsden:
Option 1: [ £x billion - let's say £1bn]
- Marsden to Huddersfield: 4 tracked again.
- Reopen the old bores
- Reopen the old route (name forgotten) from the unused bores to just outside Stalybridge (currently mostly a foot/cyclepath, easily visible on google maps)
- From this point, straight line to Guide Bridge (there's a lot of commercials yards, a few buildings, and a local Stalybridge Conservative Club)
- 4 track Guide Bridge to Ashburys
Option 2: [£10x billion - let's say £10bn
- Dig tunnel from Ashburys to Diggle
- As above from Diggle to Huddersfield
At this point - bearing in mind this doesn't need to be decided until after the 2024 election, if not 2028.. - it'll probably take 3 years to come up with the two options above..
Government of the day (2024-2028) will say "we can save £9bn and deliver quicker, less disruptively, fewer people thrown out of their houses" etc.., so we end up with Option 1 as the only realistic outcome, but feel free to imagine a different outcome, I just think option 1 is most likely to pass a value for money test and it'd be good enough.
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