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HS2 critics have no answer to West Coast capacity challenge

David HT Smith, The Thursfield Smith Consultancy Shrewsbury SY3
10 January 2014
 

Peter Mackie makes interesting points in his Viewpoint about HS2, particularly the inflation of cost estimates becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the poor connectivity with the existing railway system (‘Six questions that need answering before we take a decision on building HS2’ LTT 19 Dec 13).

The concentration of jobs in London and the South East is a serious problem and HS2 could help as Peter says. Other potentially useful measures include varying both employers’...

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