"Stickleback wrote... Re: Getting Old... Ray, Tamsulosin brought me a lot of relief in the early period of my personal prostate journey. Took about 7 days to start working. Same here, been on Tamsulosin for about 2 years, but unfortunately the impact is now wearing off and back to pissing a couple o...

ludo21 wrote... My only dealings with HS2 is driving past the route near Bicester about once every couple of months. They are working on a bridge there and (to the untrained eye) very little progress has been made in the last two years despite the appearance of continuous 'work going on'. If that sc...

"As Cilla used to say: ""Now over to our Graham""........."

"Apparently Phase 1 between Old Oak Common and Birmingham is 40% complete? Reckon before any of the track is laid Phase 1 will revert to an arterial route stopping at the new towns planned along the route, possibly even to connect just north of Aylesbury as it crosses over the East/West Varsity line...

"Westham67 wrote... Re: HS2 may not run through to central London -More delays Undoubtedly a cluster fuck. You have been on major infrastructure projects as I have and there would a team of experts in their own field brought in a project home but not here no we dont need help And you'll know that in...

"Mike Oxsaw wrote... Re: HS2 may not run through to central London -More delays Unsurprisingly even the civil engineering costs over-run because the pre-bid land surveys were either not undertaken or culled from whatever existing data was out there (shallow archaeological digs, probably). They also ...

"Perhaps then we can be told who will actually own it, once the Quango that is HS2 Ltd hand it over to the French/Chinese/Equity Investor/Bus & train Co operator to rinse more public subsidy and rip-off fares out of us. There's nothing like paying twice for something that you still end up not owning...

"Mike Oxsaw wrote... Replying... Logged in as overbyyer Football Forum Ticket Forum Off-Topic The title of your post: Re: HS2 may not run through to central London - report Your message: Mike Oxsaw wrote... Mike Oxsaw wrote... For an arrival/departure every 4-5 minutes, you'd need at least 3-4 platf...

"Chigwell Freight movements at night makes sense, but it's also because there's isn't (or wasn't up until Covid) enough capacity during the day, certainly on the West Coast Mainline. Having to wait to move freight until until a night slot is available is surely not a preferred option? 14 years on fr...

"Mike Oxsaw wrote... Re: HS2 may not run through to central London - report overbyyer 11:58 Mon Jan 30 What does the 14th train do, then? Are you being serious? It departs in a sequence after the 13 previous trains, potentially with 13 x 4 minutes in between."

"The same train won't leave every four minutes, it will be sequenced with the 12 departures ! Anything called 'public transport' will need to be subsidised - thats the only way to make it fully accessible and heavily used, but that fundamental point disappeared with privatisation....."

"Anders The demand for rail improvement is between Northern regions, the original aim for HS2 was express business travellers from the North, direct to London. That need has gone forever. Meanwhile, there are new towns being developed along the proposed route that will all need railway access. That'...

"Anders The demand for rail improvement is between Northern regions, the original aim for HS2 was express business travellers from the North, direct to London. That need has gone forever. Meanwhile, there are new towns being developed along the proposed route that will all need railway access. That'...

"There's too much completed infrastructure through the Chilterns for it to be curtailed - more likely to revert to a second West Coast mainline with stops at newly created 'new towns' along the the route, or perhaps more of a priority for freight services as they currently struggle for decent access...

"There's too much completed infrastructure through the Chilterns for it to be curtailed - more likely to revert to a second West Coast mainline with stops at newly created 'new towns' along the the route, or perhaps more of a priority for freight services as they currently struggle for decent access...

I think I'll bale out - last thing I want to do is antagonize anyone. Good luck to you all.

"Selectively extracting parts of posts doesn't help either. I had no intention of derailing the thread and no offence was meant to Block, but I see no harm whatsoever in adding positivity to the scenario."

*and unhelpful*

I'm not calling anyone out If you read the full context of my post I'm saying he's got all the bases covered and to look on the various aspects of the situation positively. Closing down debate and taking offence on behalf of others is unhealthy and helpful.

*does* the same

"Block wrote... Re: Anxiety/depression ""Broke down last night, I'm absolutely shattered as I've taken more of a hands on role with the boy, I only work 4 days now so either at work or at home looking after him whilst the wifes at work."" Help me out here, I'm struggling to understand what in that s...

Fair enough The nuanced message within a message is above my pay scale. Crack on.

"Vexed wrote... Re: Anxiety/depression Yes Peckham, you are, but you're our tragic boring weird snowflake cսnt now and theres nothing we can do about that. What are you getting out of this kind of post that makes it worthwhile for you?"