During the Athensmetro strike, Democratic Left, the smallest partner in the three-party ruling coalition, described the civil mobilisation order as "an extreme choice".
The HS2 line probably won't be comparable with the painstaking efforts made during the construction of the AthensMetro, but if HS1 is anything to go by, the archaeological considerations could still be huge.
When Athens was preparing to host the 2004 Summer Olympics, construction of the underground metro encountered so many archaeological significant sites that delays lasted for years.