THEIR MISLEADING GLOSS is here: https://www.hs2.org.uk/
MY REALITY is here: They can't even put freight on to finish the railway they built between Worcester and Derby through the Black Country, let alone the rather necessary commuter and regional trains alongside traffic-choked main roads and motorways!
They replace one perfectly fast enough high-speed line with an even faster, dedicated high-speed line that does not stop at any of the stations the first high-speed line stops at!! We have an overcrowded railway network because the trainspotters have never spotted that they themselves have been destroying railway lines that Beeching very properly closed but, never intended to be obliterated as our trainspotters have done. Why don't they stop destroying railway lines, first?
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Media reports indicate that the E arm to Leeds is uncertain and may be cancelled.
The monetary cost, for both arms, is over £100 billion of deadly greenhouse gases from unfortunately finite fossil fuels, we must conserve URGENTLY.
External costs are ecocidal and are never taken into account (probably for that uncomfortable reason).
YET, on dedicated tracks, it is isolated from the rest of the railway network and because it goes so fast it can only stop at very few stations - outside of London at two stations (Crewe, Toton), two airports (Brum, Manchester) and three terminus stations (Brum, Manchester, Leeds).
A useless, vanity project of selfish prestige and self-aggrandisement.
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