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On the one hand the West Yorks authorities like to lobby under the pretence of being a 3 million strong city economy but, on the other, they also want what normally goes with that (expensive infrastructure) to be spread out over its true polycentric nature. It's no wonder that London based civil...

All of the HS2 spurs are 230kph, so the difference between HS2 core speed and the likely speed of NPR is moot. A standard 230kph HS2 spur to Liverpool literally has a double purpose as a 230kph NPR line.

Regarding NPR into Liverpool and some of the above, it is worth noting that the project does not entail significant extra infrastructure in Manchester (assuming the underground station has been dropped), but merely Liverpool connecting to HS2 plus a few add-ons. It was remiss of HS2 to omit the...

My side point is rather that if HS2 had been designed properly in the first place to serve both, its alignment would have been west of Warrington per the WCML (and per the Liverpool regional response a number of years back). Instead it was purposefully aimed only at Manchester. The main point...

If that were to happen, the latter part wouldn't. London has extreme political and financial clout that Liverpool doesn't. The only way this will get built at all is if the city's leaders manage to seize a small window of opportunity; those opportunities are fleeting, few and far between. On...

The 400m from Crewe bodge is a nod to the concerns raised over overcrowding. This is something that HS2s own reports pointed out a number of years back. It was always bizarre that we as a country should build this new railway line, and yet one of the key cities it's meant to serve be stuck with...

I'm not sure it's going to make much difference at Broombridge though!

None, just expressing why I think it's faulty and not to be agreed with

It's not right at all, it's a faulty comparison. Firstly the figures themselves. Child tax?? NI employers being added to the personal taxation but not on the other column. The personal pay is an overhead of the latter example... There's so much wrong with the examples and how they are not like...

Fantasy figures meets resentment politics. In this case you're either a "wealthy boomer" or hard done to via "treadmill taxes'". But it's the same dogmatic deliberate and often brutal over-simplification that's destroyed Venezuela, Zimbabwe and others. Thank God Labour didn't worm their way in...

Rinse the captive market. As the overall tax burden doesn't decrease. The UK tax burden is at a 50 year high, and yet fares (and other things) have continually increased under the pretence of delivering better value to taxpayers. That being the case, and that the captive market are also...

As I say, they were hiked in the couple of years before privatisation, ready for it.

"Good value" for a medium distance railway needs affordable walk up fares. Pre-privatisation, travelling off-peak between Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and London (and all variants in-between) was a casual everyday affair accessible to most. It's been a rip for a long time now.

Not to mention the pre 94 increases, ahead of privatisation. The MML used to be good value. That's no longer the case.

The demand for a delay in roll out of flexible seasons exposes peak time fares for the extortion job it really is. Time and time again we're told the eye watering cost of peak fares is needed to "manage demand". Here we have a product which can help manage demand within that framework. The per...

I'm surprised an unpaid line of "work" is listed as an option. It's clearly ambiguous and impossible to prove or disprove. Myself, I would definitely fit one of the definitions above of "homemaker". However I also have a paying job. Do I really have two jobs just because life is hectic...

For a station that (normally) has a train every 10 minutes in each direction, the amount of waiting space upstairs seems rather large.

It also includes south Manchester. I think these things are just relics of ancient history rather than anything meaningful.

A more intriguing add-on question in response to this: what if a company wanted to do a "Brightline" in the UK? Ie. Buy up all the land necessary for stations and track between two destinations. Get the necessary permissions from the councils to build on it. Contract a third party to construct...

Given the prior move to develop more through LNW services, the current service being non ideal would suggest that it is intended to be only temporary. The services do provide important connectivity throughout. For long distance, the LNW provided much needed capacity uplift too, so I don't...