BBC reporting the economic benefits of the Oxford to Cambridge Arc.
Including a rail link. Good news.

How long though before the #HS2
#battunnel brigade nimbies are out in force?

The whole rail plan will be scuppered because someone *walked his dog in a field earmarked for development.

*once

Hesse-Bahn: Sieben Jahre Verspätung wegen Fledermäusen Die Hermann-Hesse-Bahn fährt immer noch nicht. Seit 2018 sollten zwischen Calw und Weil der Stadt Züge fahren. Doch Fledermäuse in zwei Tunneln haben das Vorhaben ausgebremst.

🦇 #HermannHesseBahn #BatTunnel
A railway project in the #GermanSouthWest had been delayed because of bats roosting in the tunnel. Solution: the bats get a tunnel of their own, parallel to the rail tunnel!
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#BatTunnel built in UK did not have to cost a £100 million, it could have been concrete blocks and not an architectural masterpiece. That was down to councils and governments to accept that stupid amount of money.

No, the HS2 ‘bat tunnel’ has not cost £300,000 per bat As I write I’m listening to the Radio 4 series AntiSocial with Adam Fleming and this week the topic is the economic and social cost of nature conservation. One of the topics being discussed i…

Thoughts on the recent HS2 'bat tunnel' controversy - no, it's not cost £300,000 per bat!

#HS2 #BatTunnel #Ecology #Biodiversity

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Listening to Rachel Reeves speech - I've yet to hear a defence of the #battunnel, but what would really worry me as chancellor would be HS2 Ltd's shockingly poor project management & stakeholder engagement. You can't blame all the cost & time overruns on the poor bats. (Lucky newts: no mention.)