Is it worth digging 60.000 bodies up?

HS2 should be scrapped, it's just another way of transferring vast amounts of public money into private hands, with no tangible benefit to the community. In my opinion, it's little more than a criminal enterprise.

The only difference between now and when the Victorians were building railways is that they they just hacked their way through cemeteries and now we pay lip service to recognising the ex-humans. They merrily hacked their way though dead people all the way into the mid-70s. When I started working there were still old hands around who'd tell you all about it and were annoyed to have work slowed down. It's a fact of life when constructing anything in urban environments that at some point there's likely to be burials. Do you have any idea how many dead people were removed for the Jubilee Line extension? Those were big, heavy, Victorian lead coffins too. It's nice that we're a bit nicer about reburying shifted burials but there'd be no progress if we didn't. It's simply unavoidable.

It's not worth anything.

Another vanity/ridiculous project. Why not invest the money in the infrastructure so that the majority benefit?

I am not clear why the bodies need to be exhumed ? The old stones need only be removed,but I am interested at the 12th century one being exhumed.a huge amount will be discovered as to how they lived at that time.

I dont think its right however if its a grave yard that is still being used or fairly new.

If the cemeteries are so old that there are no close relatives left of the people buried there, it doesn't matter. There isn't much land here, so they have to be built on sometimes. Sometimes you can even buy disused churches and graveyards and change them because there are no close relatives, no one is visiting the graves.

no

They won't be bothered as they are dead

Not even if the bodies pay for their own removal.

I would rather walk further ..it's good for you.

how would you feel if one of those graves had a relative of yours..

It happened to a cemetery they dug up near me to build a supermarket and the remains were thrown on a tip ..at the time I was doing my family tree and found one of the graves they dug up had 8 ancestors in of mine including my grandparents..

HI JBKS

so would you rather walk further or take a quick train ride.