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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
The problem with HS2 is that people at each end want it but people in the middle don't. And with a small island like ours there are lot of in between places that don't really benefit and are adversely affected.
With big countries it's easier to go around those middle places but not so here. Or those middle places are far enough apart to warrant being included in the route.
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The problem with the people in the middle is they’ve never accepted that it’s the big cities that move the economy whose output they benefit from. ‘I don’t benefit from this railway line because I can’t travel on it’ is typical of the narrow minded nature of public discourse in this country.
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Sunak has just delivered the relevant section of his speech. He now says the ‘Network North’ supposedly to be built instead will enable travellers “to get from Manchester to the new station in Bradford in 30 minutes. Sheffield in 42 minute, and to Hull in 84 minutes on a fully, electrified line." Which would be grand, if it ever got built. But as of right now, how do we know that in 3 years he won’t claim the “facts have changed” and what he’s proposing now won’t get scaled back, delayed or cut again? These are just pretty words from a Tory Prime Minister to a Tory conference hall full of people who know they’ll have to move heaven and earth not to lose the forthcoming election, but don’t really know how.