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Sir David Higgins, the man credited (gasp!) with bringing the Olympics in on budget and now boss of HS2, wants to speed up the building of the northern section of the £50bn high-speed rail project.

The cost simply trips off the tongue without so much as the bat of an eyelid - £50bn!

It is not that long ago that the cost was a staggering £32bn. It has now gone up by over 50% and we have not even bought so much as a bag of sand. How much will it have cost by the time it is finished?

It has the be the biggest White Elephant of the age Totally unnecessary

Apparently, that's £121 million per mile, per a BBC report last Autumn.

Just imagine how many potholes you could fill in on our roads for that kind of money .....

Oh at least half a dozen Os

Rings of Tessa Jowells first estimated cost for our last Olympics.