HS2 or H2O?

System

The reliable water supply to the SE will never be achieved so that one could be a job for life.

wotsthat

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Kinda off topic I know, but was watching a piece about HS2 the other day. Apparently it's going to take 14 years to get this sorted?

Whereas the victorians built bigger projects within 5.

No Nimby's getting in the way of progress.

pqrdef

There were Nimbys. Landowners who didn't want railways through their parks got them diverted or tunnelled. Cambridge University got the railway moved about as far away from the town as possible without being in the next county.

But the Victorians didn't worry about closing a road for a month or two while they put a bridge in, one stone at a time. Bridges are a major headache now.

ChiefGrasscutter

...and as I've previous stated on this subject the population of England in 1841 was only around 15 million (further 1 million in Wales)
So there were far fewer people affected by putting railway routes through the landscape.
They did kill rather a large number of people in the process of building them as well but no one cared about that either.

olly300

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

...and as I've previous stated on this subject the population of England in 1841 was only around 15 million (further 1 million in Wales)
So there were far fewer people affected by putting railway routes through the landscape.
They did kill rather a large number of people in the process of building them as well but no one cared about that either.

You forgot to add that some of the people in charge also put themselves at risk as they thought it was part and parcel of being an engineer.

GDB2222

If your daughter gets the senior job she is after, is there any chance that she could help me get a job as a Nodder with her firm?

“A Nodder is something like a Yes-man, only lower in the social scale. A Yes-Man’s duty is to attend conferences and say “Yes.” A Nodder’s, as the name implies, is to nod. The chief executive throws out some statement of opinion and looks about him expectantly. This is the cue for the senior Yes-Man to say yes. He is followed, in order of precedence, by the second Yes-Man - or Vice-Yesser -, as he sometimes is called- and the junior Yes-Man. Only when all the Yes-Men have yessed, do the Nodders begin to function. They nod. “

Degenerate

Need more info: How good is she at evading !!!!!! when it hits the fan?

TruckerT

Degenerate wrote: »

How good is she at evading !!!!!! when it hits the fan?

That is her greatest strength, and that is how she secured both job offers!

My advice to her is to consider whether or not, in post-Victorian times, it will actually be possible to construct an effective water-distribution system within the available timescale, and...

...whether or not, by the time HS2 is built, UK demographics will still require transport from Heathrow to Birmingham and beyond, or whether the urban concentrations will have moved from the arid deserts of the south and east to the wet highlands of the north and west

What will happen to the sheep?

TruckerT

Linda_D_2

TruckerT wrote: »

my daughter, who has more letters than an alphabet after her name, now has to choose between a senior job in the provision of a high-speed rail link north of London, and a senior job in the provision of a reliable water supply to the South and East of England

which would you recommend?

TruckerT

It will come down to technique, the best BJ will win out.