>> No one favours HS2 except the contractors who will build it and the politicians in
>> their pockets. It's totally misconceived and an utter waste of money that would be better
>> used to improve existing rail services and make them as cheap and efficient as they
>> are in, say, France.
Trouble is AC they spent billions less than ten yrs ago improving the existing service from Euston. It's full again. Trains leave at 3 minute gaps and run at 125mph and at 11-12 coaches are as long as they can be.
You can faff about pouring more billions into rebuilding junctions, by passing Stafford and realigning bits to squeeze out 5 more minutes from a Manchester train. Another few billion buys 140mph commuter trains for Milton Keynes and Northampton so the current 110mph jobbies don't get under the toes of the expresses. But its still full by 2020.
So instead you build a fast new well aligned 200mph railway. Loads of new capacity and much more freed up on the old one too.
Look at HS1 as it runs through the Kent Weald. Does it really eat up that much land or blight the countryside?
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Mon 20 May 13 at 20:10
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