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Given the shortened work day on Monday compared to previous RMT strikes (I seem to recall it being 7am-7pm), are we to assume that the golf is being prioritised over people needing to get to work on Monday?

Currently on a somewhat warm 197042, where the air conditioning is only working in 1 of the 2 carriages. Felt a small blast of cold air from the vents as we pulled out of Crewe but out of luck otherwise

Most of the comments I've seen have been more from a political perspective than a technical one. It would have been much more difficult to chop Phase 2/2a/2b if construction had already started, essentially it would have forced the government of the day to commit to building it in full, or...

If I understand correctly (and I admit I may be mistaken), doesn't this preclude any increase in frequency beyond the 10tph without further infrastructure works on what would be (hopefully) a working railway

I'm sure you could drive down the subsidy with changes that wouldn't be poltically acceptable on an existing system (DOO and increased fares), and on a per-person basis with better planning for increased patronage. Merseyrail proper doesn't serve large parts of the LCR

Ehhh, this is the 3rd(?) announcement of this project and we're still yet to see any funding for it

Realistically, the UK has no real checks and balances on what parliament can and can't do. Thanks to parliamentary sovereignty, if they wanted to push it through before Christmas this year they could do it, look at how fast the COVID restrictions were passed (Introduction to Royal Assent in 6 days)

I fear you may end up disappointed if you think they aren't distingushing between 2a and 2b because they're incompetent, this is clearly a government brief that they're going to cancel everything north of Birmingham. The fact this is now reported in one of the major Tory papers pretty much...

It would be a long time, if ever, before another major infrastructure project is commissioned by any government. Any opposition to large projects would be galvanised by the fact that all they need to do is delay it long enough and shout loud enough, that it's no longer viable.

Except of BCR will now be skewed by the fact that it's not a follow on project, so all the wind down of contracts etc will have to be brought back to speed. Make no mistake, this is the beginning of the end for HS2 as originally envisioned. Crewe can't be justified without Manchester and they're...

Except of course it will almost certainly become ludicrously expensive to shorten the time frames again, with the need to relet contracts. Any delay will more or less become permanent.

The Merseyrail network is rather busy on most normal, so I'm not surprised to hear about the queues forming as quickly as they did. Indeed a number of my friends completely avoided the City for the entire weekend, just so they didn't get caught up in what was assumed to be hell.