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Anna Noyd-Dryver · February 10th 21, 05:26 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 13:31:02 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 11:31:31 on Tue, 9 Feb
2021, remarked:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 10:38:17 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:11:01 on Tue, 9 Feb
2021, remarked:
So the usual half-arsed British answer which achieves none of the
desired objectives and ultimately costs far more than doing the job
properly in the first place.

So you think spending 100B+ on a railway to shave off 30 mins for pax trains

It's more than an hour for many destinations in the Midlands.

Which ones?

Birmingham to Leeds, 1hr 9 mins.

Wow, so a ~2 hour journey becomes ~1 hour. Well worth the money then.

You'd say the same about a road scheme which produced the same journey time
reduction, presumably?

Anna Noyd-Dryver