1) "Thousands of houses and thousands of jobs by building HS2 Station on the edge of Birmingham City centre" claim by HS2 director and expert on 'Derailed: The Story of HS2', Radio 4, 'Omnibus' edition broadcast 19 July 2025.
Is this true?
TRANSCRIPT:-
2) Protester: "If you were giving a local area £200 m to spend, what would you spend it on? I don't think people would have said, 'Spend it on HS2 railway'. They would have wanted it spent on commuter services." In response, Presenter, Kate Lamble, said "HS2 champions had not effectively got across the possibility of the new line freeing up space for commuter services", said presenter/narrator, Kate Lamble. 20 mins in on 19.7.25.
Is what Kate said true?
UNTRUE because:
A specialist high-speed line with no intermediate stations apart from at one airport, means that every intercity train must remain on the existing, parallel line for all the stations that HS2 is far too fast to stop at. Therefore, for the BBC presenter and investigator (not a protester) to claim that HS2 will free up "space for commuter services" is FALSE and misleading.
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