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Originally Posted by Osem
Not really, I've come late to this debate because I'm not inherently for or against rail as I've made clear. I simply searched for recent high speed links and found the Dutch example. Highlighting it's problems is no more cherry picking than citing French infrastructure built years ago in a very different financial climate, under very different planning laws and supported by successive governments totally committed to such projects.  |
I only used the French example to counter your own mention of the Dutch. I have only mentioned the other countries networks to highlight how high speed rail is becoming more common place in developed countries: Mainland Europe, Asia and it's being mooted over in America.
Also successive governments are committed to HS2. Labour were for it, they still are, and so are the Tories.