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Old January 5th 14, 07:54 AM posted to uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.railway
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Default Happy and Prosperous 2014 to all

"Arthur Figgis" wrote in message
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On 03/01/2014 20:32, d wrote:


If the government had been honest and said simply that the west coast
main
line has reached capacity and a new parallel line is needed I suspect
most
people would be for HS2 or some version of it. But selling it as a way
just to
shave 15 mins off a trip to brum was moronic and quite rightly people
said it
would be a waste of money.

The official stuff did say that. Unfortunately no-one official seems to
have stepped to shout about it once NIMBYs and the media decided to run
with "OMFG 100 million billion quid to cut 20 minutes off London -
Birmingham and who wants to go to anywhere outside the M25 anyway".

It doesn't help that much of the official position seems to come from
engineering types, so is accurate

Except that it's not. By comparison with other commuter lines into London,
Euston services are not "full"

tim

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