Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,003
HS2: Outrageous rail project will not benefit Wales, transport expert says. Prof Mark Barry, who helps advise the Welsh Government on transport, said HS2 "does not benefit Wales at all".
You heard it here first.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51460737
(Although, in the interests of balance:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51061417)
(Not my real name.)
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
I am for the idea but common sense says improve the existing more local links first, that would immediately benefit many more people rather than the few.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
The whole project, while virtue-signalling the concept of the Northern Powerhouse, merely underlines the London-centric mindset of Government and the civil service. It would make much more sense to connect Liverpool, Hull, Leeds, Scotland and the North East first, then add a link to the south ( including Brum) later if it is then considered appropriate.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
Being a cynic MPs, civil servants and businessmen are in favour because it means those living up there in foreign parts
will get home that bit quicker.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,980
A calamitous boondoggle that'll benefit dim business people who can't work a computer or who lack the imagination to look out of the window, fellows who need to strut around in hard hats to give their wilting bravado a boost, and the burgeoning black-uniformed 'security' industry who'll be 'protecting' the environment and perfectly good dwellings from those who'll be trying to save them.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
the other infrastrutue can be done while the main line is being done, simples.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,003
Assuming the objective is a railway, rather than Keynesian economics, one could invite Paddy Fields and his chums in as navvies:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51512831.
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,931
That sounds like a rice idea Button. They could replace the T in train with a G and within the proposed track length cultivate long grain rice especially with the current surplus of water!
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,848
Excellent news. On my canal travels I have now crossed the route twice. Once to the east of Leamington Spa last week and interestingly once well to the NORTH of Birmingham where loads of plant was already cutting a huge swathe across the landscape.
My only regret is that I do not have a wood burning stove as there was plenty of ex ancient woodland going spare.
Fantastic to see a large infrastructure project up close.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
