In my opinion a disastrous day. The money could have been far better utilised by spending on a variety of infrastructure projects, particularly in the north, but also Wales and the South West which would benefit a huge number of people. What we have is a project with huge cost to benefit a small minority including all the City Centre property developers.
I haven’t read all the posts in this thread but I am still not exactly sure what the overriding business case is for HS2 - speed or capacity.
For the latter, yes there is an increase between the major cities but then any overcrowding on the WCML isn’t due to the many thousands travelling from Birmingham every morning is it?
Yes replacing faster services will give paths to other trains which can stop more often but since they will be slower the service will surely take longer and choice removed
I haven’t read all the posts in this thread but I am still not exactly sure what the overriding business case is for HS2 - speed or capacity.
For the latter, yes there is an increase between the major cities but then any overcrowding on the WCML isn’t due to the many thousands travelling from Birmingham every morning is it?
Yes replacing faster services will give paths to other trains which can stop more often but since they will be slower the service will surely take longer and choice removed
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