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The rail thing

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As others have stated the problem with HS2 is the complete lack of a business case. The days of throwing lots of public money and extra energy consumption at a prestige project so that a few can travel faster have surely passed. If we really want to spend £34Billion on a rail infrastructure project (and there are good arguments to do that) then there are much better ways to spend it so that more people benefit. Why not improve local services so more of the general population can get to work by train?

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4 May 2012

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3:15 pm

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