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Scrap HS2: the NHS and classic rail need the cash

Roger Davies
03 February 2017
 

In the latest scene of the pantomime that is HS2, the Government is going to invite tenders for 60 1,000-seat 225mph trains. These fearsome beasts will be whatever the electric equivalent of a gas guzzler is. Green travel it ain’t. The transport secretary says the new line will carry 300,000 passengers a day, which, assuming every train is full, would mean a train in each direction every 7.5 minutes of the operating day (6am-midnight). What preposterous piffle, why isn’t he taken to...

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