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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
32billion for a single rail link is way excessive, I am normally an advocate of investment but this is just stupid. So its saves 49mins for a service how much of the population use?
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Again. The time saved is not insignificant. It can be the difference between a comfortable trip and a awkward one. The difference between a business deciding being based outside of London isn't a disadvantage and deciding that it's just not close enough to their clients.
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Who is likely to use this service aside from business people? as normal people are already getting priced out of trains as is.
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I used HS1 yesterday. I have used it a number of times and I have used the Eurostar quite a bit as well.
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The modern era actually has video conferencing for meetings as well.
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It also has European rivals who do have High Speed Rail. The cool thing is once connected we can be part of a High Speed network across the continent. Manchester to Paris, London to Berlin and so on.