Kingfisher200262
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There were reports in yesterday's papers saying that the Government is going to plant two million trees around HS2 between London and Birmingham, to mitigate the issues of noise and visual blight.
Have they really thought this through?
If they plant the trees too close to the line, they will really struggle with "leaves on the line" and if they plant them further away, they will take more land and risk vastly increasing the cost of building the line.
It might sound like a great political move, but it's not really that practical, is it?
I'm wondering whether, for a forty minute journey I could live without the view from a train window (after all, we put up with it on the tube and we'll probably have our head in a laptop or a book). If so, couldn't the whole route be put in pre-cast concrete boxes placed end to end, which could then be dealt with like a cut and cover tunnel and landscaped over?
Have they really thought this through?
If they plant the trees too close to the line, they will really struggle with "leaves on the line" and if they plant them further away, they will take more land and risk vastly increasing the cost of building the line.
It might sound like a great political move, but it's not really that practical, is it?
I'm wondering whether, for a forty minute journey I could live without the view from a train window (after all, we put up with it on the tube and we'll probably have our head in a laptop or a book). If so, couldn't the whole route be put in pre-cast concrete boxes placed end to end, which could then be dealt with like a cut and cover tunnel and landscaped over?