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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
The government cant afford to spend 30 billion on social services, welfare, housing, prisons, border security, police, pensions amongst other things. Yet they can afford it to spend it on 100 miles of rail track. Credibility out of the window.
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Only to people that don't understand the difference between debt and deficit. If your out of work you cut back on monthly expenses but you wouldn't think twice about spending money on a train ticket to enable you to get to job interviews.
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20 mins is a luxury small boost to a journey its not a game breaker. Yes it is nice to have a quicker journey, however not at that cost. Modern business uses video conferencing now days, if they wanted to invest in making business meetings more practical then that would have made more sense and probably cheaper for benefiting more of the country as well. This just benefits london and birmingham plus whats in between. What is sad as well is that people will be paying twice, once via taxation and again via higher fares.
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The higher fares are not that much higher and this doesn't just benefit London to Birmingham, other trains going north can use the high speed rail up to Birmingham making trips to Manchester, Leeds and more faster.