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Presentation matters in debate around HS2

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Looking back in our history we used to have innovative projects with great foresight, now we seem to produce ideas that don’t inspire any excitement, trying to reduce journey times by ten minutes and creating a new network! I would say either put the money into helping create new engineering jobs in a number of fields or if we really need a new rail system design and build a Maglev network as proposed back in the seventies by Professor Eric Laithwaite. Yes it would cost quite a lot more to build but it would be quiet and both cheaper to maintain and operate and could inspire a new generation of engineers.

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30 May 2012

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3:44 pm

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