Why we need HS2: capacity, connectivity, and cost

Tony Bolden, Littlehampton, West Sussex BN16
07 March 2016
 

Stephen Plowden and Graham Nalty have in recent editions expressed in different ways their dissatisfaction with how high-speed rail is being progressed in Britain (Letters LTT 05 & 19 Feb). Yet high-speed rail has been, and continues to be, a successful transport operation in many parts of the world and there is no reason why it should not translate into British conditions.

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