The engineering of HS2 is complicated; the politics is very simple: you can’t claim to be a government committed to infrastructure and cancel the country’s biggest infrastructure project; you can’t claim to be the party of the north and cancel the new north/south railway line
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Fair point but then you only need a second line rather than a high speed line in that case, which obviously costs a lot more for the more meticulous engineering required
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Speed is a bonus - as it doesn’t need to weave through towns, you can make it straighter and stick it in a field so it can be faster and if it’s faster it can compete with domestic air travel as a greener alternative in the future - pricing will need to compete with flights too
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There are easier ways of freeing up capacity on London-Birmingham.
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Yes. New signalling systems could double capacity on existing lines. And grade separated crossovers e.g. at Chedingworth, Milton Keynes or Roade would increase capacity. No doubt there are other constraints I don't know of which could be removed at economic costs.
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They talk of more freight trains on West Coast main line. Please explain how that will give passengers a better service from Milton Keynes and Northampton. If freight capacity is needed why not build it? Make HS2 lower top speed and make it 4 track with local stations.
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The local stations are broadly where you need them, the West Midlands conurbation pretty much developed along the WMCL, if you were building a new line for local stations, where would you put it? The best place is where it already ishttps://capx.co/its-time-to-get-the-debate-back-on-track-the-case-for-hs2/ …
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This is bogus. It only increases capacity if fares are the same or lower. If, as with the M6 toll, the fares are higher (which they will be) then the capacity remains under used. Equally, no time saving if the terminus takes longer to get to or hard to access as will be the case.
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Capacity is capacity, not patronage. The fares are set by the franchises not HS2. Given the massive increase in capacity (supply) why would prices go up? At Euston, Manchester Piccadilly and Leeds HS2 will arrive at the stations people would normally use for intercity travel.
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Show me an alternative more environmentally destructive. There is NOTHING worse than the stupid straight line of HS2, which is allowed to deviate only for an important parliamentary constituency. It's a shocking example of late 20th century environmental vandalism.
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The most pressing need for capacity is certainly not on the London to Birmingham route.
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Really? Rail patronage is up 121% in the West Mids alone with many of these services having to share tracks with intercity services which themselves have seen passenger numbers treble since 1997. 40% of the UK's freight runs along the WCML too. It is the busiest line in Europe.
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