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Alternative to HS2 will fail to deliver the necessary capacity

William A M Barter - Towcester, Northants, NN2
03 June 2011
 

The HS2 Action Alliance (HS2AA) has published a report, More capacity on WCML: an alternative to HS2, suggesting that conventional upgrades based on the DfT/Atkins  Rail Package 2 (RP2) option would provide at least as much additional capacity as HS2. However, the HS2AA report contains a fundamental flaw that makes “misleading” a euphemism.

In assessing “capacity”, it has calculated just the number of physical seats in the rolling stock fleet, not the number of...

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