Chris Packham could not have spoken a truer word. It makes all our problems worse, intensifies the climate emergency and shouts the lie that it will reduce overcrowding, increasing capacity when it rockets past every intercity station, duplicating plane travel. That is the lie.
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It cannot help in lessening the destruction of nature when it is such a heavy-footed and greenhouse gases intensive way of making all our problems worse and speeding us to THE END. HIGH SPEED TO FOUR TERMINUSES. Humans are on track to terminate themselves faster!!
HS2 does reduce overcrowding in the sense of getting a seat for travellers to and from the Big 4 Cities and 2 airports. It can't take intercity trains off the lines to allow for more commuter and regional trains.
ReplyDeleteGetting a seat for a quicker journey for some destroys nature of which we are part. Therefore, this is yet another bold/foolish step on the road to extinction - good old humans! Tim