Good morning, Mark and, in the FoE corner, Bill, Gerald, John, David and Chris - friends over the years who are welcome to comment, please!
Thanks for this Mark. I am disappointed by the railway industry and Railfuture that is out to grow their business with projects like Crossrail 2 and HS2 that will spew yet more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to worsen our prospects because, all the spending, adds to the runaway greenhouse effect and the planet's Sixth Mass Extinction episode (our own). Happy days!
At the same time, they have spent the years since 1945 closing railway lines as we went out to buy and use cars with ever greater enthusiasm but, then, being content with seeing their own closed railway lines destroyed without a murmur of protest, let alone the vigorous (fairly vigorous, along with much else) campaign that I have indulged in since the mid-90s!
The railway industry and Railfuture have also supported the light rail, tram industry taking over heavy rail lines to further add to the loss of capacity on our railway network!
The railway enthusiasts, yet again, have started to destroy a perfectly good railway line - the Black Country Mainline through Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall. The six other railway lines in Dudley, alone are already gone for ever but, then, they want HS2 as a greenfield railway only a little less damaging than a greenfield motorway. However, colossally more expensive than motorway building! Over £200 m/Km for HS2; £21 m/Km for M6 Toll when it opened in Dec 2003.
What do you make of that, Mark, David, Chris, et al? Is my reasoning right, do you think?
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