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The international high-speed rail agenda is grinding to a halt

Joe Rukin - Founder, Stop HS2, Kenilworth
29 July 2011
 

The arguments from supporters of HS2 have changed over the last 17 months, as each one of them has been shot down in flames: first it was good for the environment; then it had a good business case; it was to get people off the roads and out of the air; it was then about ‘changing the economic geography of the UK’ and ending the ‘North-South divide’; then it was all about jobs; and now finally it is about capacity.

Academic study after academic study has proved that these...

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