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HS2 and airports policy still suffer from muddled thinking

Mike Crowhurst, (Chairman Railfuture 2004-2012), Leeds LS25
10 January 2014
 

Comments on the two most controversial current transport infrastructure projects in your Christmas issue prompts me to offer thoughts on both. 

On HS2 I was most impressed with Peter Mackie’s Viewpoint. The scheme is conceived at present as if it were an entirely new system rather than an upgrade of the existing rail network. We do not have a track gauge problem in this country like Spain or Japan, so we do not need a Shinkansen-type solution. We do have a loading gauge problem, so...

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