BUT CLIMATE SHIFT MATTERS MUCH MORE - and being less greedy, selfish and thoughtless matters even more.
Thanks, John and I've read the article. The UN IPCC reports, since its formation in 1988, have made things crystal clear that we have to reduce our travelling around the planet and not have even more high speed travel to eventual extinction.
There will be some, but little modal shift when there are no intermediate stations apart from the two airports and three terminal stations. They give increased choice and definitely NOT any increased capacity. Only some trains will stop in terminal Brum and intermediate Crewe. A railway line that serves so few people because there are so few stations on such a short line, must be folly in the extreme. Especially, when £1 expenditure = 1 lb in weight of ecocidal greenhouse gas emissions. This equation is a sensible rule of thumb on which to base all decisions, such is our fatal and almost 100% addiction to finite fossil fuels. This will be humanity's undoing to make our tenancy on planet earth a good deal shorter than the very successful dinosaurs that we so decry!
The very people who are giving us High Scam 2 are the very people who, with their predecessors, stupidly obliterated about one third of the national railway network when Richard Beeching sensibly closed them. The man did not want their complete wipe out.
Seven Dudley borough railway lines have been built on or, are impossible to bring back for trains or trams. About 100 Kms destroyed in the West Midlands. Complete idiocy.
ME: The more we spend, the more we burn fossil fuels, it seems to me. Have I got this right, Jonathon? SELF, 16 February 2019
PORRITT'S reply: “More or less right! … ”
"Just one caveat: as we decarbonise our grid, we’ll obviously be burning rather less of the reserves of remaining fossil fuels, and relying more on green electrons. But the rule of thumb still holds for the time being!" Sir Jonathon Porritt 17 Feb 2019
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