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Scrap HS2, say free marketeers

16 September 2016
 

The Government should scrap HS2, according to free market think-tank the Adam Smith Institute. Report author Nigel Hawkins says journey time savings from HS2 phase one between London and the West Midlands go “nowhere near” to justifying the project’s “huge cost”. “A far less grandiose, more piecemeal, investment approach is needed to deal with understandable concerns about the overcrowding at some peak periods on the southern parts of the West Coast Main...

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