Please explain how it allows "better train services on the other lines" when every intercity service must remain, as now, to serve the lesser towns and cities that HS2 goes flying past.
We, in the Black Country, have a 120 Kms principal mainline railway already built but, it is being turned into a tramway on two short sections totalling 6.7 Kms slap bang in the middle! All six of the lesser railways have already been built on. For both HS2 and Metro trams, you have high cement use that is very high in GHG emissions, all the steel that demands coking coal, plus the high energy use of high-speed trains. All this to reduce overcrowding, to increase more long-distance travel and, to speed us on our way to the runaway greenhouse effect, as venus has - somewhat disastrously.
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