Quote Originally Posted by kettering_baggie View Post
I don’t think that it was ever going to be worth whatever it was going to cost; a huge amount of money to shave off about ten minutes from London to Birmingham. Our country is not as large as France, Germany, Italy or Spain, where the greater distances would provide more of a justification. Even now, it will be many years before the high speed trains actually go into Euston and at the Birmingham end, I don’t think that it will go right into the City centre (New Street). I think that the Birmingham-London route should be finished but not to High Speed specifications; use it for current trains and freight. The money wasted on this project though, could have made a big difference to rail infrastructure in all areas of the country.

Oh, and another thing, I do believe that there was support and opposition to HS2 across the whole political spectrum. So, if it hadn’t been the Tories squandering the money, it would have been Labour. This Conservative government has been bad but Labour would have been no better and if that had been under Corbyn, we would be in a far worse state.
It’s never really been about the commuter links Kets, this is about moving large volumes of freight, keeps it off the roads and should in realty make things cheaper and easier for our northern industries to move goods. We have to look long term, all we get are governments doing what’s right for them and the next election, bugger all long term vision and plan.