Re: New high speed rail link ...is it worth it ?
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
(Post 35360296)
not much good to me as I dont live near london. ;)
the investment on HS1 HS2 etc. is a limited part of the country that benefits.
However the channel tunnel was replacing no line, there is already a line from brmingham to london.
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High Speed should eventually benefit all the country. The idea is to remove any disadvantage from not being in the capital by reducing the time it takes to get there. It will make companies in, say, Sheffield feel less remote to their clients in London. All of which should mean business, jobs and homes being more eventually distributed across the UK rather than centralised in the South-East.
I get the feeling the Government are in a no-win situation. They are often criticised, including on this forum, for being too focused on London and yet they are also criticised for taking real steps to help developing outside of the capital.
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Originally Posted by AndyCambs
(Post 35360302)
Inote also that the new link bypasses the East Coast completely - so despite being told "improvements on the way" for people commuting from Newark and points south to London - that seems to have been missed out..
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Because for high speed to work they don't stop often. These aren't meant to be typical commuter trains which stop at many locations along their route, they are meant to connect the major population and business centres which in turn will have local routes to finish the journey. You don't take the motorway to your front door, you take it until the closest junction and then go on local roads to get there. Where before we were connected by the rail equivalent of a dual carriageway we're going to have a 4-lane motorway. |
