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HS2 is too controversial – let’s pause and re-think the route

Chris Oldham, Shewsbury SY4
01 November 2013
 

Following on from recent contributions to LTT about the route of HS2, it has never been obvious why it is proposed to plough up the Chilterns, rather than following the M1. 

The populations living along the M1 route provide physical obstacle, but these should not be insurmountable and the big populations provide an obvious attraction for the route too. The Chiltern route has managed to attract huge opposition without providing value to anywhere south of Birmingham, and yet it has cost much...

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