Congestion on our infrastructure networks already costs British business £23.2 billion every year. Although the network has made huge strides recently with upgrades such as that on the West Coast Main Line and the opening of the UK’s first high-speed railway line linking London to Paris, the network is still largely based on its Victorian foundations, with limited scope for further modernisation.
The time has come to take a new look at our railways and to take a view beyond the existing networ...
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