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The rail thing

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The trouble with political 'champions' for major projects is that they refuse to look at the specific details of what is being proposed. They prefer to deal in rhetoric. What is needed for HS2 is not more 'champions' but an indpendent and objective analysis of the costs and benefits, the environmental impact and the effect on the rail network as a whole. As the previous comments have demonstrated, the facts we have so far suggest that HS2 is a huge waste of public money which could be better spent on a wide range of alternative infrastructure investments

Posted date

4 May 2012

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4:21 pm

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