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The rail thing

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In their own words. HS2 is not an answer to over-crowding because high speed means fewer trains can travel and with fewer people onboard. CO2 is poor as this airspeed is not dissimilar to an aircraft flying at altitude, and it requires 3 times more concrete than they are admitting to. Do the junior school maths ie length of tunnel, diameter, lining thickness etc. High speed will be too expensive for users, witness the dutch HS rail bankruptcy. In 20 years, video conferencing will have replaced business travel, so who will use it??

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7 May 2012

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4:59 pm

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