HS2 Green Tunnel at Chipping Warden - November 2023 - FlyDJI
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Published 2023-10-01
This approach will see more than five thousand giant concrete tunnel segments made in a factory in Derbyshire before being assembled on site. The completed tunnel will then be covered by earth, with trees, shrubs and hedgerows planted to fit in with the surrounding countryside.
Chipping Warden is one of five ‘green tunnels’ that are being built on phase one of the HS2 project, which is designed to improve links between London, Birmingham and the north.
Flying drones - despite being legal and safe - is frowned upon by so many ignorant and ill-informed people. As we tried to get footage of the start of the Greatworth Green Tunnel, HS2 security obstructed us and so we had to end the flight and leave this site for another day.
HS2 Traffic Marshals allowed us to walk along the public road to where we were flying, then security rocked up and told us we had to leave. When we questioned it, they admitted it was a public road but also a construction site and asked us to leave. So, to avoid conflict and any problems, we did what they asked - they were only looking out for the safety of people on site given the large plant driving around. Sadly this meant we were unable to get the footage we wanted.
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Music: Relapse by White Hex
All Comments (11)
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That security man was very kind, I would like to be his friend
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What with the cost problems I fail to unerstand why thus is now just left as cutting. That will save a few pounds. Wildlife mittigation sits can be provided as easy as they are on canal restorations.
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I saw that interaction with security. It was Saturday,I was working on the adt, wondering what's going on :)
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32 miles of tunnels through the middle of now where, and bridges over gravel pits, plus poor project management, are to blame for HS2 being cancelled for the 20 million in the North.
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The madness of the unnecessary scale at which HS2 was planned is really our fault collectively. We can’t let a sign post be sunk in the ground without environmental assessment, archaeological study, feasibility and business case, 2 years of negotiation, 40 middle managers, and so on and so on….it could’ve been 1/5th the construction path with 1/5th the environmental impact. What good is all this if it never gets finished or used?
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no wonder this thing is costing us billions, and what for ??
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Nice music. That propagandist sprightly female voiceover doesn't fool me. Cut and cover tunnels -'We're building these to help reduce the impact on people and nature.' Well your cut and cover tunnel extension north of Greatworth is not reducing the impact on the people of Thorpe Mandeville because the portal is now a quarter mile closer to the village right? And the same tunnel extension is not reducing the impact on nature at the same place because it is cutting straight through a watercourse and knocking out the entire ecology of the valley below, a problem which HS2 cannot resolve along with the other problems despite billions upon billions of pounds piled on top of the creaky HS2 foundations, all of it collapsing under the weight
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that tunnel should be finished by now and backfilled what are they playing at,all time wasters very last one
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Turn it into a toll road be much better use
