By: Philip Alexander

Philip Alexander — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 08:01:14 +0000

Stop bleating about lack of detail and focus on the real issue. After the Billions already spent and continuing to be spent on Covid, the country is effectively broke. The budget should have recognized that the government can’t possibly justify spending over £100 BILLION more on HS2 and they should scrap it immediately. £100 BILLION will go some way towards rebuilding the fiscal position. The project was always a complete white elephant anyway and even more so post-covid since travel patterns will change dramatically and there will be few passengers willing to spend the sort of fares which will be needed to pay for the ridiculous thing. A new, thorough demand study should be carried out at once to establish what the real transport priorities are and it is certainly not the ability to travel at 400 kmph between a few cities in England. The east-west connection from Liverpool to Hull is far more important than a north-south ultra highspeed line. Why can’t the people in the DTp see that and tell the stupid government? Are they really that scared?

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By: Philip Alexander