{"id":252522,"date":"2026-01-19T13:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/252522\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:52:15","slug":"how-the-uk-ended-up-building-the-worlds-most-expensive-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/252522\/","title":{"rendered":"How the UK ended up building the world\u2019s most expensive railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article picked by a teacher with suggested questions is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details\/registration\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/schoolsarefree\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Specification:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Click to read the article below and then answer the questions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3f731e87-bc4b-426c-a97c-67e1ad50831d\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How the UK ended up building the world\u2019s most expensive railway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Calculate the estimated ratio of cost per kilometre of the HS2 project to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link<\/p>\n<p>Identify the main reasons why the UK government has overspent on HS2<\/p>\n<p>Explain how these reasons affect the rate of productivity in this sector<\/p>\n<p>Analyse the methods by which the UK government could have alleviated pressure on the HS2 project (before or after the project began)<\/p>\n<p>Evaluate the view that despite the environmental concerns, the UK government should have implemented the \u201cJapanese Model\u201d in the planning and delivery of the HS2 programme<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Drew, Emmanuel College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article picked by a teacher with suggested questions is part of the Financial Times free schools access&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-252522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}