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The National Audit office has already suggested that HS2 should
be
delayed, supposedly to reduce costs.

there are plenty here who think that vanity project will nor be
entirely missed

It's a lot more than a vanity project. There will be severe
capacity
limitations on the WCML very soon now if it isn't built.

I suppose that is the problem of coming to a group where not
everybody has engaged in (an earlier) discussion on this subject
elsewhere

Whilst it is true that capacity problems might dictate that the
best
solution is for a new two track railway between London and Trent
Valley junctions, plus (as separate requirements) rebuilding Euston
and the long promised Stafford cut off

the rest is a totally unnecessary vanity project

If High Speed Rail is a "vanity project" then why has most of the
developed world been adopting similar projects for decades?

because they have a different geographical spread of their population
than we do

Japan?

Or South Korea?
https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Hig...in_South_Korea

aare either of those meant to disprove my claim?

please show your working

We don't have to disprove your unlikely claim. You're the one who said
there was something about Britain that made it so unlike Japan, Korea,
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, China, etc. You need to explain what is
so
different about Britain.


Isn't it that we are a smaller, denser island that is even more
capital-centric than many of the others?

thank you :-)

plus the smaller regional centres are much closer together, so the time
savings from HS lines between them is marginal

Being more capital-centric makes it more, not less, important that other
regional centres have fast, frequent links to the centre.